Böcker av Michael C. Coleman

From more than a hundred autobiographical accounts written by American Indians recalling their schooling in government and missionary institutions this book recovers a perspective that was almost lost.

Based on the correspondence of missionaries in the field, this book offers valuable insight unto understanding Protestant attitudes toward the American Indians in the nineteenth century. The book portrays a major Protestant denomination's evangelical program to take the Indian from heathenism to gospel light.

In the first full comparison of American and British government attempts to assimilate ""problem peoples"" through mass elementary education, Michael C. Coleman presents a complex and fascinating portrait of imperialism at work in the two nations.