Boarding

How Boarding Schools Came To Be In American history, many things have affected Native American life and one of the biggest ones was boarding schools being created. Boarding schools may not seem like a very big deal but has affected a large part of Native American life. In the time prior to these schools being created, the American government's main issue was finding a place to move Native Americans to, since their homelands were now under the control of the government. Eventually, the tens of thousands

1. How were the American Indian children in the government boarding schools treated? In the government boarding schools, the American Indian children were children were not treated well. They were not feed with good meals that were having the nutrients that they needed for their good health and physical wellbeing. In addition to that they were treated in a military style. If one students did something “wrong” they were given hard punishment that were sometime harming them physically and mentally

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

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

Starting off as a plan to assimilate and educate Native American Children, the boarding school program resulted in the stripping of culture and native identity. The cultural deprivation process began in 1860 when the Bureau of Indian Affairs established the first on-reservation Indian boarding school in Washington state. The main goal of both the boarding and day schools was to assimilate Indian children into the “American way of life” (American Indian Council). At the start, the schools were all

“Come on Ava!” yelled an excited Sophia from downstairs. I dragged my suitcase out of my room. It was half way through the year and our mother had decided to ship us off to a boarding school for girls. “Ava!!!!” Sophia was an incredibly adventurous person. I on the other hand would like a nice relaxing day reading a book and leaving the adventures to the characters in my stories. As I reached the bottom of the staircase the doorbell rang and broke my train of thought. “I’ve got it!!” Sophia said

The Native American Indian Boarding School was an institution designed by missionaries to "assimilate" the Native American children to adopt American culture. Assimilation was intended to strip young children of everything they knew of their own culture and replace it with what the white man saw fit ultimately because they were threatened by the native people they had suppressed. As far as being successful, the schools did separate the children from their parents and tribe therefore weakening the

Luther Standing Bear had a very negative experience with the Boarding Schools. He explains how after arriving at school, he and his Lakota peers were stripped of their entire culture. They were forced to not speak their native language and go by Christian, English names. The Native American children had to abandon their comfortable traditional garb to, “High collars, stiff-bosomed shirts, and suspenders…leather boots caused actual suffering” (Bear 376). Sadly, Luther Standing Bear remarks that because

Native American Boarding Schools “America remembers what it did to its Black slaves and is sorry. America remembers what happened to the Jews in Europe and says "never again." America refuses to remember what it has done to Native people, it wants to forget the lies and the slaughter.” (“Reservation Boarding Schools”). From 1878- 1978, Native American children were taken from their families and homes to boarding schools that stripped them of everything they were raised to believe. Schools today do

Since learning about the Indian boarding schools, I have mixed feelings about Richard Henry Pratt and his intentions of changing Native American lives. Although in some ways Pratt changed White peoples view of Native Americans for the better, he was not taking the feelings of Native Americans into consideration. It seems that Pratt thought he was doing them justice by teaching them English and how to work as “civilized” people. He had hopes of helping Native Americans by training them to achieve