Grade 8 Fall — The Long Road to the Civil War, the War Itself from Multiple Perspectives, Reconstruction as Betrayed Promise, and the Industrial-Gilded Age (United States 1850-1900)
History · CUL
G8
hist.g8.f.cul.dawes_act_boarding_schools_cultural_genocide
Analyze the Dawes General Allotment Act 1887 (138M Indigenous acres in 1887 reduced to 48M by 1934 = 65% loss) + Carlisle Indian Industrial School 1879 founded by Richard Pratt + 'Kill the Indian, save the man' July 4 1892 + 408 federal boarding schools 1819-1969 (Newland 2022 US DOI Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative) — named as cultural genocide per current historiography
Use Adams 1995 + Child 1998 + Newland 2022 + Treuer 2019 + NABS + Zitkala-Ša 1900 + Standing Bear 1933 + Black Elk 1932 own-voice survivor primary sources; center Pratt's verbatim 'Kill the Indian, save the man' as PERPETRATOR primary source named critically; apply MG-15.
Mastery threshold
90%
Min instances
12
Typical minutes
50
Spaced intervals (days)
1, 3, 7, 14, 30, 60
Successors
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hist.g8.s.civ.indigenous_sovereignty_continuing
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Common misconceptions
- Treating Pratt's 'Kill the Indian, save the man' as 'unfortunate phrasing' — it was the explicit operational policy of 408 federal boarding schools per Newland 2022 + Adams 1995 + Treuer 2019; named as cultural genocide per current historiography
- Believing the Dawes Act 1887 was a 'reform' to help Indigenous people — per Treuer 2019 + Dunbar-Ortiz 2014 + Blackhawk 2023 it was a deliberate instrument of land dispossession