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Publication Date: 1996
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Estelle Reel, Superintendent of Indian Schools, 1989-1910: Politics, Curriculum, and Land.
Lomawaima, K. Tsianina
Journal of American Indian Education, v35 n3 p5-31 Spr 1996
Examines the career of Estelle Reed, federally appointed Superintendent of Indian Schools, 1898-1910. Discusses Reel's development of the Uniform Course of Study (a highly detailed, primarily vocational curriculum); racist ideology; girls'"domestic training" to transform Indian family life; instruction in traditional Native crafts; and Reel's role in facilitating transfer of Indian lands to non-Indians. Contains 34 references. (SV)
Descriptors: Acculturation, American Indian Education, American Indian History, Biographies, Boarding Schools, Curriculum Development, Educational History, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnocentrism, Federal Indian Relationship, Home Economics, Land Use, Racial Bias, Student Experience, Vocational Education, Women Administrators, Womens Education
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Language: English
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