Kill the Indian, Save the Man

Will become a seminal text in genocide/holocaust studies. A point-by-point delineation of how the intention and results of the Residential Schools Program meets the definitions of the Genocide Convention. Academic marketing: Ethnic Studies, Education Author tour: San Francisco, New York, and other cities to be determined.

The devastating results of a 100-year program to eradicate Native North American cultureFor five consecutive generations, from roughly 1880-1980, Native American children in the United States and Canada were forcibly taken from their families and relocated to residential schools. The stated goal of this government program was to "kill the Indian to save the man." Half of the children did not survive the experience, and those who did were left permanently scarred. The resulting alcoholism, suicide, and the transmission of trauma to their own children has led to a social disintegration with results that can only be described as genocidal. Ward Churchill is the author of A Little Matter of Genocide, among other books. He is currently a Professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder.