Join us as we name BSC’s LEA hall in honor the former BSC President Dr. Larry C. Skogen!
Wednesday, May 8, 2024 l 1:30 pm
Outside the Library Main Doors
Dr. Skogen served as the 6th president of BSC from 2007 to 2020. He was a dedicated advocate of the arts, humanities, libraries, and student success. To learn more about him, click on the image below!
Author: Larry C. Skogen
…an Enlightenment era-influenced universalism, held that through an educational alchemy American Indians would become productive, Christianized Americans, distinguishable from their white neighbors only by the color of their skin. Directly confronting the assimilationists’ universalism were the progressive educators who, strongly influenced by the era’s scientific racism, held the notion that American Indians could never become fully assimilated.
For a decade educators gathered at annual meetings and presented papers on how best to educate Native students. Though the NEA Proceedings published these papers, strict guidelines often meant they were heavily edited before publication. In this volume, Larry C. Skogen presents many of these unedited papers and gives them historical context for the years 1900 to 1904.”
Indian Depredation Claims, 1796-1920
Author: Larry C. Skogen
Beginning in the seventeenth century, with the colonization of the Americas, European immigrants and American Indians encountered each other’s views on the rights and responsibilities of ownership. Disputes arose as a natural result of the meeting of two cultures, and occasionally these developed into sanguinary conflicts. In 1796 the United States Congress created the depredation claims system to compensate Indians and settlers alike for the loss of property and thereby preserve peace on the frontiers.
By presenting the lives of non-Indian people who filed for relief from depredations and the legal and political systems under which they filed claims, Larry Skogen accentuates the distinction between the lofty ideals and the penurious, tedious reality of the claims system.
Read it! Read it! 