Images of Assimilation: Photographs of Indian Schools in Arizona

Autor/inn/en	Margolis, Eric; Rowe, Jeremy
Titel	Images of Assimilation: Photographs of Indian Schools in Arizona
Quelle	In: History of Education, 33 (2004) 2, S.199-230 (32 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0046-760X
Schlagwörter	Educational Research; Research Methodology; Boarding Schools; American Indians; American Indian Education; Photojournalism; Photography; Educational History + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Boarding school; Internat; American Indian; Indianer; Fotoreportage; Fotografie; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte
Abstract	This paper examines recently discovered photographs of Arizona Indian schools. The amateur snapshots were drawn from a personal album of about 150 photographs collected by a woman who apparently worked at the Pima Indian school in Sacaton. The name of the woman who made the album and sketchy captions is unknown, handwritten on the front or back of the photographs, provide scant documentation. The images date from c. 1917 and provide bits of information about the structure of an Indian school, its environment in the desert South of Phoenix, and the daily lives of the students and teachers. The snapshots appear to have been taken by an acquaintance visiting one of the teachers at the school who captioned the images and compiled the album. The album provides a foundation for inferences and interpretations grounded in the literature. Arizona schools identified in the photo captions include the Blackwater day school Sacaton, Keams Canyon, and Rice Station boarding schools. During the period when these images were made, each of these institutions functioned as feeder schools, funnelling students to the off-reservation boarding school in Phoenix that was the second largest in the country. This article argues for, and attempts by example to demonstrate, the value of photographs as data for historical and social research. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10