INDIAN EDUCATION AND CULTURE IN THE CHRONICLES OF OKLAHOMA: Interpretations From Modern Anthropology and Progressive History

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries scientific principles began to transform the methods of historical and anthropological research. In history, Frederick Jackson Turner developed his Frontier Thesis that interpreted history from a social, progressive, evolutionary, and sectional perspective. Among other things Cesar presents how the idea of progress was interpreted by anthropologist and Progressive historians in Oklahoma and how it perpetuated some of the negative stereotypes associated with tribal culture in Oklahoma.