In the Courts of the Conqueror by Walter R. Echo-Hawk

Author:Walter R. Echo-Hawk
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing
Published: 2012-09-06T16:00:00+00:00

The legal status of the uncivilized Indians should be that of wards of the government; the duty of the latter being to protect them, to educate them in industry, the arts of civilization, and the principles of Christianity…The establishment of Christian missions should be encouraged, and their schools fostered…The religion of our blessed Savior is believed to be the most effective agent for the civilization of any people.92

Government education was seen as a tool that “cuts the cords that binds [Indians] to Pagan life,” according to one superintendent in 1887, “places the Bible in their hands, substitutes the true God for the false one, Christianity in place of idoltry…cleanliness in place of filth, [and] industry in place of idleness.”93 As historian Limerick notes, nineteenth-century Americans were blinded by notions of religious superiority, and no thought was given to Native American religious liberty during this era:

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