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Larry C. Skogen

President emeritus, Bismarck State College

To Educate American Indians: An early 20th Century History

12-1:15pm, March 3, 2025

Zoom: https://ndsu.zoom.us/j/98321696865?pwd=ObiQonYVJnoEEAQrsaNpwX5Ptl1ykZ.1

Meeting ID: 983 2169 6865
Passcode
: 071118

Abstract: From 1900-1909, the National Educational Association (in 1906 renamed the National Education Association) included a Department of Indian Education. For that decade, Indian school educators met at the NEA annual meetings, participated in general sessions of the association, held department meetings at which they presented papers about their unique work at Indian boarding and day schools, and discussed contemporary currents in Indian affairs related to their collective challenges. At the conclusion of the meetings, selected addresses from these meetings were published in the Journal of Proceedings and Addresses of the National Educational Association. These presentations provide an important record of the work of Indian school educators, and as published, are often cited by scholars of Indian education. However, the story of the creation and operation of the Department of Indian Education remained untold, and the papers cited in scholarly work are often edited versions rather than the papers as presented during those meetings.

            To Educate American Indians: Selected Writings from the National Educational Association’s Department of Indian Education, 1900-1904,” solves these two deficiencies by covering the creation of the department and the circumstances of each of its annual meetings. It also contains selected complete addresses found published in other periodicals or in manuscript form held in archives. A second volume covering 1905-1909 is forthcoming in fall 2025. 

Biography: A native of Hettinger, N.D., Dr. Larry C. Skogen holds degrees from Dickinson State University (B.S. in secondary education), University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg (M.A. in history), and Arizona State University, Tempe (Ph.D. in history).

Retired from a career in the U.S. Air Force, Dr. Skogen has been involved in education as a high school teacher and as a college faculty member and administrator in a variety of military and civilian institutions, including the United States Air Force Academy and the New Mexico Military Institute. In 2007 the North Dakota State Board of Higher Education appointed him as the sixth CEO of Bismarck State College (BSC). In 2013 he was selected as the interim chancellor of the North Dakota University System and returned to BSC as president in 2015. He retired from that position and became president emeritus in 2020.

He is author of Indian Depredation Claims, 1796-1920, published by the University of Oklahoma Press in 1996, and in 2024 the University of Nebraska Press published his To Educate American Indians: Selected Writings from the National Educational Association’s Department of Indian Education, 1900-1904.

This event is co-sponsored with Humanities ND and NDSU’s School of Education.

If you have any questions or comments, then please contact Dennis Cooley at dennis.cooley@ndsu.edu or ndsu.npei@ndsu.edu.

 

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