print email comment close Assimilation Through Education: Indian Boarding Schools in the Pacific Northwest URL: http://content.lib.washington.edu/aipnw/marr.html Description: This online essay and photograph exhibit covers the practice of placing Native American children in boarding schools, mission schools, and similar institutions. Includes discussion of a typical daily schedule at the schools, and negatives and positives of the movement. Find footnotes, study questions, and a bibliography. Searchable. From the University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections; created by Carolyn J. Marr, anthropologist and photographs librarian at the Museum of History and Industry in Seattle. Author: Marr, Carolyn J. Publisher: University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections Library of Congress Subject Headings: Boarding schools Indians of North America -- Cultural assimilation Indians of North America -- Education Indians, Treatment of -- United States LII Database Information: Record 2063 created by Margaret Myhre on 01/26/2004 Last modification on 01/08/2005 Published: 01/26/2004   Funding agency: Washington State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/2063