Americanizing the West: Protestant and Catholic Missionary Education on the Rosebud Reservation, 1870-1920

Autor/in	Bennison, Sarah Machiels
Titel	Americanizing the West: Protestant and Catholic Missionary Education on the Rosebud Reservation, 1870-1920
Quelle	In: Teachers College Record, 113 (2011) 3, S.431-462 (32 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1467-9620
Schlagwörter	Historiography; Catholic Schools; Protestants; Catholics; Conflict; Females; Educational History; American Indian Education; Parochial Schools; Role of Education; Socialization; Politics of Education; Role of Religion; American Indian Reservations; Reservation American Indians; Social Attitudes; Social Bias + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Geschichtsschreibung; Katholische Schule; Protestantism; Protestantismus; Katholik; Konflikt; Weibliches Geschlecht; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Konfessionsschule; Bildungsauftrag; Socialisation; Sozialisation; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Indianerreservat; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung
Abstract	Background: This paper challenges the dominant story of Protestant and Catholic conflict by illustrating the critical role that mission schools played in creating denominational consensus in the West. Focus: Protestant and Catholic missionaries cast aside their differences as they worked toward common goals to "civilize," Christianize, and "Americanize" natives on reservations like Rosebud. United as whites against indigenous "others," these predominantly female missionaries forged new, interdenominational conceptions of American identity through their work in western mission schools. Research Design: The article offers historical analysis and interpretation. Conclusions: Despite a long historiography emphasizing conflict between these groups, this study of a Protestant school and a Catholic school on Rosebud at the turn of the twentieth century provides new perspectives on the Americanization process at the center of schooling during this period. This examination of missionary education adds to our understanding of educative efforts among Native Americans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by illustrating how religion, and religious denominationalism, operated on the frontier. Against a long history of missionary work in the West and denominational conflict in the East, Protestants and Catholics alike affirmed their own "American" identity through their work on Rosebud. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10