Go East, Young Man (Or Woman): American Indians, Education, and Turn-Of-The-Century America November 3, 2010

In the late nineteenth century, an increasing number of American Indians left rural communities in the American West to attend boarding schools, like Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, or institutions of higher learning, like Dartmouth and Yale. Historian to the Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs Francis Flavin will discuss individuals like Charles Eastman (Wahpeton Sioux), Henry Roe Cloud (Winnebago), Gertrude Bonin (Yankton Sioux), and Carlos Montezuma (Yavapai) and their ideas about the issues facing Indian people at the turn of the century. This talk will take place in the Rachel Carson Room, Main Interior Building.