1877 NATIVE AMERICAN GENOCIDE. Rare Foundational Text for Establishment of "Indian Schools" and Against Claims of Extinction. Moravians with the proceedings of the

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1877 NATIVE AMERICAN GENOCIDE. Rare Foundational Text for Establishment of "Indian Schools" and Against Claims of Extinction. Moravians with the proceedings of theThis 1877 Bureau of Education pamphlet is a foundational, data driven manifesto for the federal government's shift toward aggressive Native American assimilation and boarding school policies. Written by Selden Noyes Clark and Bureau Commissioner John Eaton during the height of the Indian Wars and just a year after the Battle of the Little Bighorn, the report uses demographic statistics to challenge the common 19th century "vanishing Indian" myth. By