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Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875-1928. By David Wallace Adams. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1995. xii, 396 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-7006-0735-8.)
Education for Extinction recognizes boarding school as a "defining experience" for Native Americans. Accompanying others mining the analytical and emotional richness of boarding school life (Genevieve Bell, Jeffrey Hamley, and Carmelita Ryan on the Carlisle Indian School; Deborah McCroix on Chemawa; Devon A. Mihesuah on the Cherokee Female Seminary; K. Tsianina Lomawaima on Chilocco; Rebecca Dobkins on Greenville; Paulette Fairbanks Molin and Mary Lou Hultgren, Donal F. Lindsey, and Wilbert H. Ahern on Hampton Institute; Brenda Child on Haskell and Flandreau; Robert A. Trennert on Phoenix Indian School; Sally Hyer on Santa Fe; Michael Coleman and Alice Littlefield on federal policy and practice; Patricia Carter on teachers), David Wallace Adams contributes a broad perspective on patterns of student response and his analytic viewpoint...