{"product_id":"out-of-print-book-this-benevolent-experiment-indigenous-boarding-schools-genocide-and-redress-in-canada-and-the-united-states","title":"Out of Print Book: This Benevolent Experiment (Indigenous Boarding Schools, Genocide, and Redress in Canada and the United States)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook Details: Hardcover with dust jacket, 2015, 432 pages\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: Andrew Woolford\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis out of print book is in relatively excellent condition.  Its dust jacket is in tact with little shelf wear.  The book's hard blue cloth cover as well as the pages have seen little wear and tear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAt 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInspired 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, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThis Benevolent Experiment \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Prairie Edge","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46356022394965,"sku":"OPNA,WOOLFORD-this-benevolent-experiment","price":37.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/9756\/2453\/files\/thisbenevolentexperient-web.jpg?v=1792002139","url":"https:\/\/prairieedge.com\/products\/out-of-print-book-this-benevolent-experiment-indigenous-boarding-schools-genocide-and-redress-in-canada-and-the-united-states","provider":"Prairie Edge","version":"1.0","type":"link"}