Irreclaimable Savages

Annual Report of the Indian School Superintendent, 1887

https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiug.30112004022692

Superintendent of Indian Schools: John B. Riley (p. 39)

“Until their barbarous dialects have given way to civilized language, to put them upon lands in severalty and require them to assume the duties of citizenship, will place them in new relation with new responsibilities, the nature of which will be beyond their comprehension.” (page 9)

“Schools should be established which children should be required to attend; their barbarous dialects should be blotted out and the English language substituted.” (page 10)