This is the story of acculturation as practiced by the institutional educational apparatus over Portorricans, Native Americans and Afro-American ethnic groups and nationalities at the beginning of the XX Century, resulting from the Spanish-American War of 1898. Readers will find new primary sources analyzed from an anthropological point of view and related to well-known scientific personalities such as Alexander Graham Bell and Samuel P. Langley; the first representing the interests of the Bureau of Indian Affairs while the second one, the Smithsonian Institution. The first part of the book...