Teacher’s Guide
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Assimilation through Education Teacher's Guide (PDF, 1.1 MB)
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Primary Sources
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Report of Forest Grove School, 1882
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Chiricahua Apaches as they arrived at Carlisle, 1886
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Chiricahua Apaches four months after arriving at Carlisle
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Tlingit mission students at Sheldon Jackson Institute, Sitka, Alaska, 1887
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Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1908
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Educating the Indians – newspaper illustration, 1884
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Group of Indian boys from Dakota territory
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Indian Reservations west of the Mississippi River,1923
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A Picture of Northwest Indians – Federal Writers' Project Interview, 1938
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Reports of Indian Schools, 1886
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Reports of Indian Schools, 1887
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