| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.2

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Book Review

America's Second Tongue: American Indian Education and the Ownership of English, 1860–1900. By Ruth Spack. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. xii, 231 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8032-4291-3.)

Ruth Spack's book enriches our understanding of Indian education in the assimilationist era, 1880–1930. A rich literature on federal policy, individual Indian schools, and Indian peoples' interplay with the schooling system has agreed that the altruism expressed and often sincerely believed by policy makers was deeply destructive and a handmaiden of dispossession. Scholars have disagreed on how long the assimilationist values dominated Indian policy and the degree to which Native communities were able to find anything of use in this program of "education for extinction." Informed by archival sources, published autobiographies, linguistic theory, and postcolonialist literary studies, as well as the historical literature, Spack addresses both issues.

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