1877 NATIVE AMERICAN GENOCIDE. Rare Foundational Text for Establishment of "Indian Schools" and Against Claims of Extinction. Prayer and Prayer Meetings that slavery was both a

that slavery was both a moral and economic curse to the land

[that it] cannot be supposed to be guided by better Principles

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1877 NATIVE AMERICAN GENOCIDE. Rare Foundational Text for Establishment of "Indian Schools" and Against Claims of Extinction. Prayer and Prayer Meetings that slavery was both aThis 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