The Indian Boarding Schools

of the Indian Boarding school is similar to the missionaries. It is to completely convert to be taught the correct or acceptable way. The indigenous culture was viewed inappropriate so attending the new structured school created this foundation of following the dominated culture. The children are enrolled to learn more of the countries culture, rather than learning their tribe’s culture or language. One is basically removed and involved to convert into the acceptable education. The Boarding School

Louise Erdrich’s Famous work of poetry, “Indian Boarding School: The Runaways”, shows how the context of the work and the author play major roles in understanding the poem from different aspects and angles to see between the lines of what we really call life. The Author Louise Erdrich is known for being one of the most significant writers of the second wave of the Native American Renaissance. She is a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians and her writing on Native American literature

happiness for the children placed in residential schools, the occurrences of suffering seem to overshadow them. During the first decades of the federal government's Indian boarding schools, stories of morbidity and mortality among students were prevalent. At the turn of the century, federal Indian schools were nearing their 30th anniversary of existence. As the 20th century dawned, the government rapidly filled these schools, especially the boarding facilities, beyond their intended capacities. As

The Indian boarding schools had many goals; however, the primary goal was to completely obliterate the culture of indigenous people. This process was done through small goals. The Indians didn’t have many options. The only options that they were given were either to be killed or to assimilate into white civilization through Indian boarding schools. Richard Pratt, a former military man is a prime example of implementing Indian boarding schools. Indian children were taking from their home reservations

Topic 1) What was the intended purpose of Indian boarding schools? According to the Wikipedia page, Native American boarding schools, “ they were established in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries to educate and [simulate] Native American children and youths according to European standards”. So, the intended purpose of the Indian boarding schools was to educate and assimilate the children with the idea of the “living the American way”. The reformers wanted the children

attend the boarding school in Riverside California accompanied by their Village Chief Tawaquaptewa and other Hopi leaders. Here, Hopis excelled in the school academics, vocational training, music and art by methods in which the federal government used in an effort try to assimilate Hopis to white society. Indian boarding schools began in 1869 with the establishment of the first boarding school by the Bureau of Indian affairs in Yajuma in Washington. The purpose of these boarding schools was to use

Indian Boarding schools were the best way to convert people and their beliefs that potentially disrupted the way of the manifest destiny. These schools would take young Indian children and assimilate them to the Anglo American way of life. The highest priority of these Indian schools were to teach the Indian youth reading and writing the Mathematics, English language, history, science, and the arts hopefully encouraging the “self-directing power of thought.” Religious education and training in Christianity

was able to attend the Indian Boarding School Gathering conference at the Turtle Mountain Community College. Listening to the stories, you could really feel the affection and how it affected our elders. I was saddened to hear the many awful stories about how our people survived this terrible event, let alone how the children had to grow up. However, according to the stories, there was both good memories and bad. As I recall Mrs. McCleave mentioning, the saying “Kill the Indian and save the man”, was

American Studies 2. Indian Boarding Schools, which began in the late 1870’s, were started to transition Native Americans from their traditional cultures and transform them into American citizens. By the 1900’s, there were 147 day schools on and off reservations in the Great Plains. Day schools were first built before the government decided that the children needed to be removed from their Indian lifestyle in order for total assimilation to occur. The first off-reservation boarding schools appeared around

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