Irreclaimable Savages

Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs for the year 1898

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Report of School at Fort Bidwell, CA from Ira R. Bamber, Farmer, Industrial Teacher, and Special Disbursing Agent , Fort Bidwell CA, August 20, 1898

“Coming as they did from ‘tepees’ without the slightest previous training, and not having other pupils here partially trained who could act as guides for them, it required much care, skill, and perseverance to convert such wild specimens of humanity into anything like decent and orderly people.” (p. 360)