To Change the World: The Use of American Indian Education in the Philippines

摘要: In a Brule Sioux legend, Iktome, the trickster, warns various Plains tribes of coming white man: “You are Ikche-Wichasha—the plain, wild, untamed people,” he tells Lakota, “but this man will misname you and call by all kinds false names. He try to tame you, remake after himself.” in essence, describes conflict that occurred when American Indians encountered Euro-Americans, who judged relation themselves found lacking. Having already misnamed people “Indians,” Euro-Americans proceeded label them, among other things, “savages.” By latter half nineteenth-century, such terms carried scientific meaning seemed propose Americans Native Americans, having “failed measure up” standards society, were doomed extinction unless they changed their ways, “remade.” And was, indeed, aim endeavors at education, or, words Carlisle president Richard H. Pratt, “Kill Indian him, save man.” These educational efforts restructuring lifestyles more than culmination battle over definitional control; precedents for future imperial expansion as United States discovered, turn century, “Indians” also lived overseas that, just like those home, needed be properly educated way life. The States' experience with thus provided both justification expansion, particularly into Philippine Islands, an precedent would enable claim was different from European imperialism based on use education transform cultures subjects prepare them self-government rather continued colonial control.