Native American Boarding Schools Summary

“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.

This was because the Huron and Algonquian communities had matrilocal, matricentric and matrilineal practices. The egalitarian relationship between men and women was evident in the nuclear families in the community. The Jesuits were extremely critical of the wives’ disobedience to their husbands, as they believed wives should be subordinate to their husbands.

At least one example of forced assimilation can be found with in both the Native American culture and the girls raised by wolves’ culture. The move from their homes to go to their new cultures place of liking. Being removed from there culture proved to be difficult. Humans or the civil people ostracize both cultures for being unruly and intolerable to there liking. Being ostracized as a species leaves the beloved culture with an overwhelming fate.

Pg.69). This quote represents the fear that scout shows while trying to hide her femininity. It shows that scout believes that women have a minuscule amount of power, and that she needs to act like a boy for her to even be recognized by Jem as a member of the group. Gender equality is not fully intact, as shown explicitly throughout the novel. Scout is not the only woman who feels the impact of sexism in the novel.

In order to have had a “successful” time at St. Lucy’s, the final stage is for the girls to be able to easily move between the two races, human and wolf, based on the audience. Based on Miura’s actions and this information, we can see how important society finds it for a person to be able to “switch” between the portrayal of races in order to please whomever is the

The first contact between the Natives and puritans was for trade and diplomacy only. The puritans though that they needed to teach the native their religion, but they where still too outnumbered by the natives to try that until after the war. The puritans were very hostile and they did not let the natives into their colonies. They were racist and they even robbed some of the natives graves. The natives were relatively chill, but they did have their faults, considering people just came and invaded their land.

They must rebel against society’s norms to conquer the viciousness of men and be proud of who they are completely. In the end of the story, the girl tames the wolf; maybe someday, with Angela Carter’s guidance, women can tame

These negative effects were further amplified with residential schools in which they were not allowed to practice their tradition and were forcefully assimilated into the “western” ways. Boarding schools were run by the new white government and forcibly taught Haudenosaunee boys agriculture and manual trades, while Haudenosaunee girls were taught domestic skills. Since residential schools targeted younger generations, it made the Haudenosaunee’s traditional

An author by the name of Gloria Jahoda describes how an Indian population dropped and how the responsible ones for this action due to the whites. Johoda make all Indians to be an image of defenseless as she states in her readings. I believe that she felt that excuses for Indians because they were not fighting for what was rightfully theirs. Indians did not know how to stand up for themselves, and instead let the whites bully them. Unfortunately citizenship was granted with and exception to the Choctaws not living their everyday life style and due to this fact under citizenship, the tribal government was abolished.

This lead to students primarily speaking English; only using their native language at home or with extended family. Some Native Americans went as far as to outright refuse to teach their children their native language, in an attempt to protect them from similar hardships (Dick and McCarty). General Richard C. Pratt was the founder of the Native American boarding school system and was somewhat famously – or should I say infamously? – quoted as saying that his schools would, “kill the Indian to save the man” (Haynes 2). Navajo was one of the languages that was most heavily affected by the Native American boarding school system.

Not only is what they 're doing offensive it’s also disrespecting to the history of Native Americans. They have been suppressed for years and now with the Washington Football team name it causes the Native American people to be upset EVIDENCE: Racism and racial discrimination are attitudes and behavior that are learned and threaten human development. Which means that people should be taking proactive steps to prevent intolerant or racist acts. Indian mascots, symbols, images, and personalities establish an unwelcome hostile learning environment for American Indian Students.

Before America was more civilized and polite, people of different races were treated more harshly as if they were animals instead of humans. Many Westerners did not enjoy and instead resented the Native Americans. To the settlers, the Natives were “unfamiliar, alien people who occupied land that white settlers wanted and believed they deserved” (History Channel Staff). The disapproval from white settlers was present until Natives got more acquainted white culture. The Natives gained many rights including individual ownership of land or property, and sometimes even slaves.

Religious stability within the development of individuals was warped during the forced assimilation due to the cult-like idea of Christianity being the superior religion throughout the assimilation era. Michael C. Coleman, author of Indian Children at School, speculates that the propaganda of the Christian religion to force and assimilate the natives into the white man’s religion was the first program to civilize Indian schoolchildren. (American Indian Children at School) As a matter of fact, before being forced into American schools, the first phase of assimilation was the act of immersing the Indians into Christianity. In addition to this, Michael C. Coleman also proposes the idea that Christianity could be labeled as a cult during 1790-1920

In today’s society, it is often taken for granted and expected that people receive an education, no matter their background. This was not the case for slaves and Native Americans in the United States dating back to the 1800s. As Frederick Douglass and the Heard Museum’s Remembering our Indian School Days: The Boarding School Experience showed, education was life changing to those it affected. Education provided them freedom and something that could never be taken away like most things had been. It wasn’t always a positive experience, but education gave them the chance to make a difference for themselves and their peers.

The Native culture was lost a while ago some people might think it was a long time ago but it wasn't if you really think about it. Because the boarding schools started around the 1860's, but it didn’t start effecting the Native people until the first generation of children were all grown up. And it wasn't until the late 1970's that the Native parents had a choice of whether or not they'd let their kids go to a school off the reservation. But by that time there was a lot of children that had already been abused and died that when they were old enough to stop going to the boarding schools they didn't want to go home they wanted to forget what happened to them. A lot of the children that grew up and had a family ended up abusing the ones they loved because that's all they knew, they didn't get the love they needed growing because the were abused as children and they thought that's what was normal.