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   The Purposes Explained

Pamphlet entitled: Indian grammar, primary and day schools: the purposes of the government explained, ca. 1885.
Indian Grammar, Primary and Day Schools: the Purposes of the Government Explained, ca. 1885.
Minnesota Historical Society Library Collection   •  E97.5 .M64



"School rooms should be supplied with pictures of civilized life, so that all their association will be agreeable and attractive. Their games and sports should be such as white children engage in, and they should be rendered familiar with the songs and music that make our home life so dear....

"It is of prime importance that a fervent patriotism should be awakened in their minds. The stars and stripes should be a familiar object in every Indian school, national hymns should be sung, and patriotic selections be read and recited. They should be taught to look upon America as their home, and upon the United States Government as their friend and benefactor. They should be made familiar with the lives of great and good men and women in American history, and be taught to feel a pride in all their great achievements. They should hear little or nothing of the 'wrongs of the Indians,' and of the injustice of the white race. If their unhappy race is alluded to, it should be to contrast it with the better future that is within their grasp."

-Thomas J. Morgan, Commissioner of Indian Affiars, ca. 1885.

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