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Peer reviewedTrennert, Robert A. – History of Education Quarterly, 1989
Provides a case study of reform movement dynamics in the Bureau of Indian Affairs in 1930. Discusses the use of excessive corporal punishment at the Phoenix Indian School. Describes the way in which John Collier used the issue of brutality in government boarding schools to bring down the Bureau of Indian Affairs administration. (KO)
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indian History, American Indians, Boarding Schools
