Carlisle Indian Industrial School

Daklugie, an American Indian who attended the Carlisle Indian Industrial School later recalled, “we’d lost our hair and we’d lost our clothes; with the two we’d lost our identity as Indians.” The purpose of assimilation was to “kill the Indian and save the man,” in order to transform Native American culture to European-American culture. This was particularly prominent in places such as Indian boarding schools, where Native Americans were stripped of their cultural identities, and forced to adopt

promises and the cruelty of the white settlers were symptoms of the greater Indian problem. The Indians refused to stop being Indians, despite the efforts of Washington and missionaries to teach

like these our well known and loved, but could you imagine going to a school where you were not aloud to speak and celebrate these holidays? Between 1879-1918 Carlisle Indian Industrial School kept native children, stripped them of their culture and made them into what they feel is the average white person. Yes some kids loved the school and benefits from the school, while other did not. Almost a century later, a boarding school opened on the other side of the country for foster youth. San Pasqual

Native American Boarding Schools During the Westward Expansion People know about the conflict between the Indian's cultures and the settler's cultures during the westward expansion. Many people know the fierce battles and melees between the Indians and the settlers that were born from this cultural conflict. In spite of this, many people may not know about the systematic and deliberate means employed by the U.S. government to permanently rid their new land of the Indians who had lived their own

“Without understanding a culture’s sports, we cannot understand the culture itself” (Gorn and Oriard, 1995). The defining parts of a culture can also shape a country’s history. A large part of the Greek identity is being the nation that began the Olympics hundreds of years ago. As America began to mature, sports helped to shape its identity as well. One piece of America’s identity is that it was and is home to millions of immigrants from all over the world. The music to one of the most recognized

Orphan Trains Orphan trains and Carlisle and the ways people from the past undermined the minorities and children of America. The film "The orphan Trains" tells us the story of children who were taken from the streets of New York City and put on trains to rural America. A traffic in immigrant children were developed and droves of them teamed the streets of New York (A People's History of the United States 1492-present, 260). The streets of NYC were dirty, overcrowded, and dangerous. Just as

is education. Indian children and Indian people did not necessarily have an “education”. They learned the ways and religion of their people. This was mainly all the people needed to know. Allotment created obstacles which caused the reservation to break up. Education was very important in saving these people’s lives, cultures, and progressing their future. As said in Calloway’s First Peoples, it states that reformers normally wanted to educate Indian Adults, but soon enough Indian children became

Uncivilized Throughout the course of history there are have been many stereotypes regarding Indigenous peoples. One of the most significant stereotypes regarding Native Americans is that they are “uncivilized” humans, or to some even, subhuman. To the European explorers and settlers Civilization was classified as being Christian and following the Christian way of life. Anything else that was worshiped besides God was deemed demonic and evil. Another crucial point of being civilized, was following

were babies. “He was born to Hiram Thorpe, a farmer, and Mary James, a Pottawatomie Indian and descendant of the last great Sauk and Fox chief Black Hawk, a noted warrior and athlete. Jim was actually born a twin, but his brother Charlie died at the age of nine. His Indian name, Wa-Tho-Huk, translated to “Bright Path,” something that Thorpe definitely had ahead of him.” (CMG Worldwide) Because Jim was born in Indian territory, he learned to hunt and trap animals which helped him develop his amazing

achieve this process were seen as necessary and just, even if it meant taking the lives and land of American Indians. America, the nation that prides itself on “liberty and justice for all,” began its history with the genocide of the American Indian culture and population, through the means of American Indian Boarding Schools. These schools were established with the goal to eliminate the “Indian problem” in America by assimilating