This article presents the text of a lecture delivered to an imaginary History of Education class in the year 2084. In the lecture, the speaker explains that historians have often come across evidence of human activities and beliefs which seem to them odd or even inexplicable. The latter half of the twentieth century was remarkable for the number…

The four half-hour radio programs focused on federally provided public education for American Indians; boarding schools of the past and present and the change to Indian controlled schools; the problem of culture conflict for American Indian college students and graduates; and the special problems of urban Indians, including stereotypes, teacher…