'It Is Cheaper and Better To Teach a Young Indian Than To Fight an Old One': Thaddeus Pound and the Logic of Assimilation.

By the late 19th century, the military extermination of Indians was proving a failure and an embarrassment. Reformist Congressmen, including Thaddeus Pound, formulated a new policy based on land allotment and assimilation through boarding school education. Though framed in humanitarian terms, the primary goal was the removal of Indian resistance to continued U.S. expansion. (TD)