Ella Cara Deloria and Mourning Do ve

Writing for cultures, writing against the grain

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ID2361571
AuthorsJanet L Finn (University of Michigan, corresponding author)
Year1993
Volume13
Issue4
Pages335-349
Publication date1993-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCritique of Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0308-275X • E-ISSN: 1460-3721
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0308275x9301300403
OpenAlexW1981597112
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited8

FIRST -The anomalous position heretofore occupied by the Indians in this country can not much longer be maintained.The reservation system belongs to a 'vanishing state of things' and must soon cease to be.SECOND -The logic of events demands the absorption of the Indians into our national life, not as Indians but as American citizens.THIRD -As soon as a wise conservatism will warrant it, the relations of the Indians to the Government must rest solely upon the recognition of their individuality.Each Indian must be treated as a man, be allowed a man's rights and privileges, and be held to the performance of a man's obligations.Each Indian is entitled to his proper share of inherited wealth of the tribe, and to the protection of the courts in his 'life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.'He is not entitled to be supported in idleness.FOURTH -The Indians must conform to 'white man's ways' peaceably if they will, forcibly if they must.They must adjust themselves to their environment, and conform their mode of living substantially to our civilization.This civilization may not be the best possible, but it is the best the Indians can get.They can not escape it, and must either conform to it or be crushed by it.FIFTH -The paramount duty of the hour is to prepare the rising generation of Indians for the new order of things thus forced upon them.A comprehensive system of education modeled after the American public school system, but adopted to the special exigencies of the Indian youth, embracing all persons of school age, compulsory in its demands and uniformly administered should be developed as rapidly as possible.SIXTH -The tribal relations should be broken up, socialism destroyed, and the family and the autonomy of the individual substituted.The allotment of lands in severalty, the establishment of local courts and police, the development of a personal sense of independence, and the universal adoption of the English language are means to this end

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