{"product_id":"to-change-them-forever-indian-education-at-the-rainy-mountain-boarding-school-18931920","title":"To Change Them Forever: Indian Education at the Rainy Mountain Boarding School  1893-1920","description":"\u003cp\u003eBetween 1893 and 1920 the U.S. government attempted to transform Kiowa children by immersing them in the forced assimilation program that lay at the heart of that eras Indian policy. Committed to civilizing Indians according to Anglo-American standards of conduct  the Indian Service effected the governments vision of a new Indian race that would be white in every way except skin color. Reservation boarding schools represented an especially important component in that assimilationist campaign. The Rainy Mountain School  on the Kiowa-Comanche-Apache Reservation in western Oklahoma  provides an example of how theory and reality collided in a remote corner of the American West. Rainy Mountains history reveals much about the form and function of the Indian policy and its consequences for the Kiowa children who attended the school. In To Change Them Forever Clyde Ellis combines a survey of changing government policy with a discussion of response and accommodation by the Kiowa people. Unwilling to surrender their identity  Kiowas nonetheless accepted the adaptations required by the schools and survived the attempt to change them into something they did not wish to become. Rainy Mountain became a focal point for Kiowa society.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44964386340917,"sku":"ByrdShop_0806128259","price":227.52,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780806128252.jpg?v=1770459368","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/to-change-them-forever-indian-education-at-the-rainy-mountain-boarding-school-18931920","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}