“Modoc Chief” Fort Bidwell Boarding School October issue.

“Modoc Chief” Fort Bidwell Boarding School October issue.

California
Indigenous Peoples
Boarding School
Assimilation
Education

The below source is a page from a wider publication demonstrating the execution of Native American education at the Fort Bidwell Boarding School, California. Surrounded by four colored leaves, in hand writing the source states that ‘The Good American Tries To Gain and Keep Perfect Health’ illustrating federal policy towards the assimilation of Native American children into 20th century society with regard to their education. The source tells us about the education which was adopted by Californian Boarding schools and the policies which they thought the Native American children needed to learn. This piece relates more widely to the other sources within its collection which demonstrate the teachings and policies of these boarding schools when attempting to assimilate these native children and turn them into the ‘ideal’ American.

Fort Bidwell Boarding School, California

Docs Teach

https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/the-modoc-chief-october-issue-published-by-the-fort-bidwell-boarding-school-california

April 1928

Ellen Daly

National Archives, Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs,

English

Textual - handwritten

20th century California

20th century California