Colonized through art : American Indian schools and art education, 1889-1915

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    • Lentis, Marinella

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Colonized through art : American Indian schools and art education, 1889-1915

Marinella Lentis

University of Nebraska Press, c2017

  • : pbk

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American Indian schools and art education, 1889-1915

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Content Type: text (rdacontent), Media Type: unmediated (rdamedia), Carrier Type: volume (rdacarrier)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-405) and index

Summary: "An examination of government-controlled schools' use of art education as a process for assimilating American Indian children at the turn of the twentieth century."--Provided by publisher

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内容説明

Colonized through Art explores how the federal government used art education for American Indian children as an instrument for the "colonization of consciousness," hoping to instill the values and ideals of Western society while simultaneously maintaining a political, social, economic, and racial hierarchy. Focusing on the Albuquerque Indian School in New Mexico, the Sherman Institute in Riverside, California, and the world's fairs and local community exhibitions, Marinella Lentis examines how the U.S. government's solution to the "Indian problem" at the end of the nineteenth century emphasized education and assimilation. Educational theories at the time viewed art as the foundation of morality and as a way to promote virtues and personal improvement. These theories made art a natural tool for policy makers and educators to use in achieving their assimilationist goals of turning student "savages" into civilized men and women. Despite such educational regimes for students, however, Indigenous ideas about art often emerged "from below," particularly from well-known art teachers such as Arizona Swayney and Angel DeCora. Colonized through Art explores how American Indian schools taught children to abandon their cultural heritage and produce artificially "Native" crafts that were exhibited at local and international fairs. The purchase of these crafts by the general public turned students' work into commodities and schools into factories.

目次

List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction List of Abbreviations 1. Art "Lifts Them to Her Own High Level": Nineteenth-Century Art Education 2. "An Indispensable Adjunct to All Training of This Kind": The Place of Art in Indian Schools 3. "Show Him the Needs of Civilization and How to Adapt His Work to the Needs of the Hour": Native Arts and Crafts in Indian Schools 4. "The Administration Has No Sympathy with Perpetuation of Any Except the Most Substantial of Indian Handicraft": Art Education at the Albuquerque Indian School 5. "Drawing and All the Natural Artistic Talents of the Pupils Are Encouraged and Cultivated": Art Education at Sherman Institute 6. "Susie Chase-the-Enemy and Her Friends Do Good Work": Exhibits from Indian Schools at Fairs and Expositions 7. "The Comparison with the Work of White Scholars Is Not Always to the Credit of the Latter": Art Training on Display at Educational Conventions Conclusion Appendix A: List of Fairs, Expositions, and Educational Conventions That Featured Indian School Exhibits Appendix B: Day, Reservation, and Non-Reservation Schools Represented at Major National and International Fairs Appendix C: Layouts of Minneapolis and Boston Exhibits Notes Bibliography Index

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