Cultural Abuse In Boarding Schools

the US and their attempt to overtake land from the Native Americans, various movements took place. One of them was the establishment of boarding schools for Native American children’s. They claimed to offer modern English education for better future, as opposed to their cultural schools. Children were forcefully taken away from their families to boarding schools where they were forced to cut their hair, pick an English name and even forced to convert to Christianity. Since, Native children were

Our Spirits Don’t Speak English provides insight into Indian boarding schools in the United States. Children of Indian tribes were mandated by the U.S. government to attend boarding schools. The purpose of these schools were to educate Indians in Western ways and language; thus, making these children “civilized.” From a trauma lens, children of these boarding schools could be viewed as victims. Indian children were forcibly removed from their homes and stripped of their Native American identity.

Reparations for Indian Boarding School Survivors in America For over one hundred years, the United States and Canadian Governments forced indigenous peoples of their land to abusive boarding schools, where children as young as the age of two, were ripped away from their families, in an attempt to terminate indigenous cultures from their land. These schools were the government's way of “killing the Indian, and save the man.” The governments of the United States and Canada similarly believed they

genocides. These children are moved away from their homes and into other areas. This causes there to be significant shifts in populations within the countries that experience these genocides. Often times, these children are then stripped of their cultural identity and assimilated into the culture that they have been placed in to. The effects of genocide on youth are not seen solely in the children that experienced the genocide, but also in the youth of future generations. It is important to look

experiences at boarding school, where school leaders showed dominance through physical abuse in addition to the psychological indoctrination. “Sexual, physical, and emotional violence was rampant. Even when teachers were charged with abuse, boarding schools refused to investigate” (Smith, Boarding 91). The United States has been reluctant to address the issues that were present in the boarding schools, and continue to affect Native American culture. “Despite the epidemic of sexual abuse in boarding schools

“[k]ill the Indian in him, and save the man” (Bear “American Indian Boarding Schools Haunt Many”). American Indian genocide is an enormous stain on America’s history, nevertheless it is rarely addressed in history classes. While the genocides are over now, unfortunately the hardships for American Indians have not been alleviated. After tribes were rounded up and designated to reservations, the U.S. government continued to commit a cultural genocide on American Indian culture. Perhaps the foremost method

Boarding schools are scary enough for children who speak the same language. Imagine a village, soldiers come in and take the children, age five and older, away in a wagon. The children arrive at a school far away from home, family, and culture. Separated according to age and sex, stripped of their clothes, bathed, and forced to stand still as they get their hair cut, many are crying, terrified of what is happening. They receive uniforms, and new Christian names, thus stripping them of their identities

War crimes against Native Americans. Retrieved from http://www.worldfuturefund.org/wffmaster/Reading/war.crimes/US/Indian.Removal.htm Diller, J. V. (2015). Cultural diversity: a primer for the human services. Australia: Cengage Learning. Conversations with Native Americans about mental health needs and community strengths. (March 2009). Retrieved from http://www.dhcs.ca.gov/services/MH/Documents/BP_Native_American Native American communities and mental health. Retrieved from http://www

traditional clothing. Because of this cultural neglect, among other things, Native Indians have not been able to come up on top in many ways. Until recently there have not been many improvements in their social

this cultural expulsion, among other