Photography As a Tool to Civilize Native American Indian Children.
Read the essay by Eric Margolis, “Looking at discipline, looking at labour: photographic representations of indian boarding schools,” which can be found at: http://studythepast.com/378_spring11/materials/indian%20photograph%20essay.pdf Write an essay describing the different ways photography was used to demonstrate the civilization of Native American Indian children. Use all four of the documentary projects outlined in the article as examples to discuss how Indian school photographs came to be seen as evidence of an oppressive system rather than progress in the civilization of savages? Carlisle Indian School Bureau of Indian Affairs’ (BIA) Frances Benjamin Johnston Vernacular photographs from the Sacaton school in Arizona The body of your essay will be a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 5 double-spaced pages, excluding illustration, footnote or endnotes, and works cited pages. Use 12-point font, 1″ margins. Format the title of each photo project in Bold. Include at least 4 illustrations. Include at least one source outside of provided essay link Include footnotes or endnote and works cited pages. All images and sources must be properly cited. Use MLA format. Formatting info available at: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_general_format.html
Photography As a Tool to Civilize Native American Indian Children