Essay On Indian Boarding School

The goal of the United States was to use educations to erase Native American culture and assimilate indigenous students into European-American society (Boarding School). “Kill the Indian, save the man” stated Richard Henry Pratt—key figure in developing the Native American Boarding schools (Carlisle Indian School). The white folk saw the indigenous people as a problem. Therefore, they attempted to solve the problem through assimilation. Many indigenous people were forced to—at times—to attend the boarding schools (Boarding School).

Since the dawn of time, society has always had a major issue in cultural believes. Less and less people find the need to know and understand other people’s customs, which lead to the misunderstanding of people’s lifestyle. The Carlisle Indian School was a horrible attempt to place children of Native American tribes into US culture by placing them in boarding school. The school was used to educate and civilize Indians, “kill the Indian, save the man” (Bear). Edward Thorp was one of those student at the Carlisle school.

Plus their religion was made illegal, so not long after people lost touch with their native roots and converted to Christianity. Another example would be their loss of independence. When the first treaty was made, both the Indians and Americans were considered equals and Native American Indians were seen as a sovereign nation. This only lasted till people in the Congress gained plenary power and abolished all the political systems of the Indians (“Native American Rights”). The Indians lost their right to have an independent government meaning Indians were no longer seen as an independent state but a part of America in which the government could control.

The Bible, the best known Christian book, speaks of slavery, polygamy, sexism, and murder. It could be said that those are also Christian values. Children in Christian schools are exposed to that, so why shouldn’t they learn about/be exposed to other wrong behaviors, to at least think critically of them? Christian school boards should think this over before deciding to proceed further with book

Without pursuing any proof, they would disappear. During the reign of Amir Abdul Rahman Khan, the women and children in Uruzgan were being sold in the open market. The government employees from the Mohamrnadzai tribe were given entitlement of receiving a preferential rate in their salary. He issued a decree that military officers be recruited from the Dorani tribe, and that in the event they did not accept the recruitment, then the hiring should be from the formalis tribe. The landless Pashtoons from other parts of Afghanistan were moved to the north, and land was given to them.

In the 1800s, Native Americans were oppressed because they were deemed to be “uncivilized” barbaric human beings. In order for Native Americans to become assimilated into the “white mans” culture of that time, Native American children were enrolled into boarding schools. Students in these boarding schools have had both positive and negative experiences. In the novel, Recovering Native American Writings in the Boarding School Press, by Jacqueline Emery, Henry Caruthers Roman Nose reflects on his experience in the boarding school through essays, and in the novel, American Indian Stories, Legends and Other Writings, Zitkala-Sa reflects on her experience through different types of writings. Despite how Henry Caruthers Roman Nose found boarding

A wave of immigrants from Europe came to America for freedom and free schooling. However, America didn’t react to the immigrants nicely. The creation of programs that taught immigrant children to be Americans. On top on that program, schools were responsible for teaching skills and knowledge to become apart of the democratic party when they were older. Though school had this system people did not agree

Gisselle Zepeda Mr. Lievre American Government Credit 5 Board of Education of Westside Community Schools Versus Mergens The Equal Access Act upheld by the Supreme Court in Board of Education v. Mergens, 1990, requires public secondary schools to allow access to religiously based student groups on the same basis as other student clubs. The school administration denied a group of students their right to create a Christian after school club. The students intended for their club to have just the same privileges and club meetings as all other after school clubs. The schools excuse being that it lacked faculty support which led to the school and district being sued by the students.

Due to the schools being set up in the communities of the Indigenous people they could return home, unlike Residential schools. The schools were not well funded and were not set up in a way that enhanced the lives of Indigenous people. They were forced to learn English and not allowed to speak their own language in the schools. The hope to assimilate the Indigenous people into Canadian society first presented itself in these schools and the education they would be exposed to. Day schools were mainly set up by the missionaries, especially in the early years when they were established.

The purpose of this movement was to inculcate European values onto the young children of the Aboriginal culture in order to exterminate the indigenous people. Cultures beliefs, traditions, along with knowledge are passed down through generations, so by taking the young generation the government was preventing the culture to live on. The children were taken from their families and put into

Many Native Americans, as well as the pack in “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves”, were forced to receive an education. Figures of authority tried, and usually succeeded, to force Native American children to attend school. These figures of authority did not give the Native Americans a choice in this matter, nor did they care about these individuals or their culture. Not to mention, over 100 Native American youth were chosen to attend school in PA. This was a noticeable number of people that were forced to attend school, and this was not very considerate.

For the Virginian Indians, their transition differed from other Indians. The Virginians had this test where they would see whether the boys were ready to become young adults. Young men would steal children to protect from the Guard while they are brutally beat however since the children escaped they were announced ‘dead’ to the village. Not being physically dead though, the children’s blood had been spared by the Okee (devil). Thus meaning that they have been sacrificed and have now lost their childhood which resulted in them becoming men.

“At the schools the students were stripped of their culture as if it were clothing.” This statement from a paper written by Sarah E Stone explains the poor treatment of the Indians in the boarding schools. This paper also perfectly states not only the treatment of the Indian children but, also the great lengths taken to change them. It seems like such a simple task for the enforcers yet an awful act in general. American Indian children and the wolf girls at St. Lucy’s were forced to assimilate into the civilized culture of the white man through many approaches and techniques that in the end ultimately reached the goal of the enforcers, which ended with benefits to society but not to the Indian children or the girls.

In 1918 the Carlisle Indian Industrial School shut its doors permanently. What remains of this experiment started by Richard Henry Pratt are not just buildings, but ghosts and scars that refuse to be forgotten. The structures that once constituted this exploratory school now stand where the Carlisle Army Barracks are situated today, and while it may seem as if the only observable aspects to remind us of the past are tombstones and markers, the stories still swirl in this town that became flooded with the desire to assimilate Native Americans. Pratt believed Indians possessed the ability to become a complimentary asset to American society if they received the proper education. He insisted that it was necessary to remove the Indians from the confines of the reservation in order to separate them from their culture and traditions, and transplant them to a setting that encouraged the Native Americans to learn the English language, to work for a living, as well as become useful members of society.

Alexie changes the odds and became a writer to save American Indians children lives, by showing them that they can do anything they put their minds to. In order to understand why Alexie is trying to save stereotyping in American Indian children and letting them believe they can do anything, one needs to consider that Americans must stop stereotyping, that children need to believe in themselves, and also find outlets to forget about the problems one could have. No matter your age, race, or ethnicity everyone stereotypes. In the story, Alexie explains that is if there is a American