{"product_id":"this-benevolent-experiment-indigenous-boarding-schools-genocide-and-redress-in-canada-and-the-united-states-9780803276727","title":"This Benevolent Experiment: Indigenous Boarding Schools, Genocide, and Redress in Canada and the United States","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eChoice\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e Outstanding Academic Title, 2017\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e At the end of the nineteenth century, Indigenous boarding schools were touted as the means for solving the \"Indian problem\" in both the United States and Canada. With the goal of permanently transforming Indigenous young people into Europeanized colonial subjects, the schools were ultimately a means for eliminating Indigenous communities as obstacles to land acquisition, resource extraction, and nation-building. Andrew Woolford analyzes the formulation of the \"Indian problem\" as a policy concern in the United States and Canada and examines how the \"solution\" of Indigenous boarding schools was implemented in Manitoba and New Mexico through complex chains that included multiple government offices with a variety of staffs, Indigenous peoples, and even nonhuman actors such as poverty, disease, and space. The genocidal project inherent in these boarding schools, however, did not unfold in either nation without diversion, resistance, and unintended consequences. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Inspired by the signing of the 2007 Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement in Canada, which provided a truth and reconciliation commission and compensation for survivors of residential schools, \u003ci\u003eThis Benevolent Experiment \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a multilayered, comparative analysis of Indigenous boarding schools in the United States and Canada. Because of differing historical, political, and structural influences, the two countries have arrived at two very different responses to the harm caused by assimilative education. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andrew Woolford\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.13d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780803276727\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrew Woolford \u003c\/b\u003eis a professor of sociology and criminology at the University of Manitoba and a recipient of a Fulbright Scholar Award. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eBetween Justice and Certainty: Treaty-Making in British Columbia\u003c\/i\u003e and the coeditor of \u003ci\u003eColonial Genocide in Indigenous North America\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40139364368499,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":94.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_a84d8b20-81e4-4492-9867-fae8e2ff9f10.jpg?v=1654434671","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/this-benevolent-experiment-indigenous-boarding-schools-genocide-and-redress-in-canada-and-the-united-states-9780803276727","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}