Melville Wilkinson

Captain Melville Cary Wilkinson (November 14, 1835 – October 5, 1898) is best known as the founder and superintendent of the Forest Grove Indian School (later changed to Chemawa Indian School), at Salem, Oregon. Like his east coast counterpart Richard Henry Pratt, Wilkinson was an assimilationist who believed that forced education was a solution to the “Indian question.”^[1]

^ Collins, Cary C. (2000). "The Broken Crucible of Assimilation: Forest Grove Indian School and the Origins of Off-Reservation Boarding-School Education in the West". Oregon Historical Quarterly. 101 (4): 466–507. ISSN 0030-4727. JSTOR 20615095.

[:0-1] Collins, Cary C. (2000). "The Broken Crucible of Assimilation: Forest Grove Indian School and the Origins of Off-Reservation Boarding-School Education in the West". Oregon Historical Quarterly. 101 (4): 466–507. ISSN 0030-4727. JSTOR 20615095.

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