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Agricultural Extension and the Campaign to Assimilate the Native Americans of Wisconsin, 1914–1932

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2011

Angela Firkus
Angela Firkus
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Cottey College
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Abstract

Congress founded the Agricultural Extension Service (AES) in the Smith-Lever Act of 1914 to disseminate agricultural research to individual farmers. In some states the AES also worked to encourage Native Americans to adopt sedentary intensive agriculture and all aspects of assimilation connected with that occupation. J. F. Wojta, AES administrator in Wisconsin from 1914 to 1940, took a deep interest in Indian farmers and used the power and resources of his office to instruct Native Americans. Ho-Chunks, Menominees, Ojibwes, and Oneidas in Wisconsin adopted or rejected these social, economic, and political assimilation efforts during the Progressive Era according to their own circumstances and goals. The experience of Wisconsin tribes with the state's agricultural extension programs illustrates different ways that Native peoples tried to benefit from modern government services while maintaining their own culture and kinship ties.

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Theme: Native Americans and Indian Policy in the Progressive Era
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The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era , Volume 9 , Issue 4 , October 2010 , pp. 473 - 502
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Copyright © Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 2010

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