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Kill the Indian, Save the Man: The Genocidal Impact of American Indian Residential Schools is a 2004 book by the American writer Ward Churchill, then a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder and an activist in Native American issues.
Kill the Indian, Save the Man: The Genocidal Impact of American Indian Residential Schools. Paperback – Nov. 11 2004. For five consecutive generations, from roughly 1880 to 1980, Native American children in the United States and Canada were forcibly taken from their families and relocated to residential schools.
With his usual painstaking accuracy and moving prose, Churchill exposes the genocidal nature of this important dimension of the assimilationist policies that continue to decimate Native North American communities.
Contents. Introduction "That Little Matter of Genocide Revisited: Contours of a Hidden Holocaust in Native North America" / Ward Churchill -- Genocide by Any Other Name: American Indian Residential Schools in Context -- Form and Scope of the Crime -- Genocide in North America -- "To Kill the Indian..." -- Forcing the Transfer of Children -- ...
“Kill the Indian, Save the Man: The Genocidal Impact of American Indian Residential Schools" is a powerful and essential work that has brought to the forefront the devastating effects of the Indian residential school system on American Indian communities.
"Painful and powerful, "Kill the Indian, Save the Man" provides the first comprehensive study of the effects of the residential schools into which American Indian children were forced by the US and Canadian governments.
The recent discovery of the remains of 215 indigenous children, former boarding students of the Kamloops Indian Residential School, has sparked a bitter debate both within and beyond the borders of Canada.
