{"product_id":"1877-native-american-genocide","title":"1877 NATIVE AMERICAN GENOCIDE. Rare Foundational Text for Establishment of \"Indian Schools\" and Against Claims of Extinction.","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThis 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 arguing that Native Americans were actually increasing in population rather than dying out, the authors reframed the \"Indian Question\" from a matter of inevitable extinction to a pressing policy issue. This conclusion was used to justify a massive expansion of federally funded, mandatory assimilation programs, directly setting the ideological and logistical groundwork for institutions like the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, which opened just two years later.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eHelen Hunt Jackson's landmark \u003cem\u003eCentury of Dishonour\u003c\/em\u003e would be issued just four years later, convincingly showing the work here to be deeply flawed and there indeed to have been what we would describe today as a genocide perpetrated against the Native American nations. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNot at auction since 1908. None in the trade at the time of cataloging. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e[NATIVE AMERICAN GENOCIDE]. Clark, Selden Noyes, and John Eaton. Are the Indians Dying Out? Preliminary Observations Relating to Indian Civilization and Education. Washington, November 24, 1877. 36pp.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGood + in original side-sewn wraps, contents generally very good, last few pages slipped from bottom perforation and a bit forward. Final leaf with a small whole with minor textual loss at the center of the sheet. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Specs Fine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50908915826724,"sku":null,"price":450.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0093\/3910\/9435\/files\/06-25-2026SpecsFineBooks-6.jpg?v=1782425736","url":"https:\/\/specsfinebooks.com\/products\/1877-native-american-genocide","provider":"Specs Fine Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}