A very scarce volume designed exclusively for use in the "Indian Schools" at the turn of the 20th century. The pedagogical outcomes and examples are telling.
The skills avoid academic pursuits almost completely and the examples and illustrations generally show persons of color, i.e. former slaves, working as domestics, in the fields, etc.,
This copy that of Earney Wilber, a member of the Menominee Nation who attended the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania from 1897 to 1903. Inscribed to him from Miss Bowersox, i.e. Kate S. Bowesox, teacher at Carlisle Indian School from 1894 to at least 1907.
Not a single example offered at auction over the course of the last 100 years in the record and no copies available on the market at the time of cataloguing.
Course of Study for the Indian Schools of the United States. Industrial and Literary. Washington. Government Printing Office. 1901. 276pp.
Good + in full limp calf, at some point consolidated and polished. Textually good + to very good.
