Irreclaimable Savages

Report of the Superintendent of Indian Schools, 1896. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100075328

Superintendent W.N. Hailmann

“We would elevate a race destined to be of us from savagery, superstition, and wretchedness into civilization, intelligent faith, and reasonable prosperity; out of the slavery of tribal self-annihilation into the freedom of individual self-assertion. We labor to remove from the ‘American Indian,’ the ‘Indian,’ leaving the ‘American’ pure and simple, a full and efficient, a worthy citizen.” (page 26)