Kill the Indian, save the man : the genocidal impact of American Indian residential schools

Author

Ward Churchill

Call Number

• 371.82997 C5635 (OSH)

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Publication Information

San Francisco : City Lights, ©2004.

Physical Description

xlix, 158 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Summary

Ward (American Indian studies, U. of Colorado, Boulder) traces the history of removing Native American children from their homes to residential schools as part of government policies, 1880s-1980s, which he views as genocidal. He includes photos of victims of "residential school syndrome," and a list of these schools in the US and Canada.

Contents

• Introduction "That Little Matter of Genocide Revisited: Contours of a Hidden Holocaust in Native North America" / Ward Churchill
• Genocide by Any Other Name: American Indian Residential Schools in Context
• Form and Scope of the Crime
• Genocide in North America
• "To Kill the Indian ..."
• Forcing the Transfer of Children
• Destroying the National Pattern of the Oppressed Group
• Imposing the National Pattern of the Oppressor
• The "Slow Death Measure" of Starvation
• "Indirect Killing" by Disease
• The "Slow Death Measure" of Forced Labor
• Torture
• Predation
• Worlds of Pain
• Putting Shape to the Future.