Carlisle Indian Industrial School

Fictitious First Contact In 1994 the film Star Trek: First Contact introduced a new threat to the United Federation of Planets – the Borg collective. The Borg is a cybernetic humanoid species with a single purpose, namely the accumulation of technology, rather than wealth, political expansion or social status. The Borg purpose is achieved through forced assimilation, a process which transforms individuals and technology into Borg humanoids, enhancing – and simultaneously controlling – individual

it had been under the British. Early in the nineteenth-century and the Louisiana Purchase in hand,”… (Thomas) Jefferson, much as he struggled with the issue (Indian policy), could simply not envision a future for the United States that included a place for ‘Indians as Indians.’ As president, Jefferson tried to design an Indian policy that would humanely assimilate Native Americans into the new republic, but his vision of national expansion turned out not to have any room for Native Americans

The emergence of cultures throughout our world have been in great part due to the historical events that have occurred. While colonization is only one of the many events, it is the leading factor that drives cultural development and establishment. During colonization, members of kinship and descent societies become occupied, colonized, and eventually an attempt is made to civilize the members into becoming more like the “colonizers”. Such is what happened to the Native Americans when Europeans immigrated

eventually was ingrained in universities and schools. While Darwinism picked up steam in the cities, religious fundamentalism continued to dominate in rural communities. William and Henry James ushered in “Pragmatism” which held that modern society should rely for guidance not on inherited ideals and moral principles but on the test of scientific inquiry.  No idea was valid unless it stood the test of experience. In 1860, there were 100 public high schools. By 1900, there were 6,000 and by 1914, there

Americans do, because their struggles were both really cruel, and unfair in the United States. I think that they both took a big part of our history to shape who we are now. As well as that they went through a lot, that in the world today in our schools

died March 28, 1953, in Lomita, CA. He was a child of Potawatomi Indian bloodlines including French and Irish roots. his given name was Wa-Tho-Huk the meaning of the name is "Bright Path," but also named Jacobus Franciscus Thorpe. His dislike to the classroom was inflamed by the death of his twin brother and both parents. In the spring of 1907, when he was

Jim Thorpe was an American Athlete who performed during the early 1900’s. At a young age he picked up track and field and eventually other sports like baseball and football and excelled in all of them. He gained worldwide attention because of his amazing talent in every sport he picked up and also because of his race being Native American, which was rare to see in professional sports. His two best sports were Football and Track and field which he won many awards in. He then got into the acting business

There are 529 federally recognized Indian Nations in the United States (National Congress of American Indians, 2003). The United States Constitution currently recognizes these Indian Nations as sovereign nations; but this was not always the case, especially regarding education of Native American students. According to PBS, a program of assimilation education began on the reservations. This was in the hopes that the assimilation of the children would translate to assimilation of the parents. However

of Luther Standing Bear are both crucial in examining the positive connotations of Indian Boarding Schools and the use of education to challenge the inferiority complex surrounding Native Americans. Luther Standing Bear was born in December of 1868 and this autobiography was completed on July 25, 1927. Encompassing the end of reconstruction, the industrial revolution, and the start of the Indian Boarding schools, Standing Bear’s life provides a deep context into the lives of Native Americans. His

Throughout history there have been many minority cultures. Americans first minority group was that of the Native American Indian. The claim made in 1492 by Columbus of being the first to discover America, was the first discrimination against the Native American Indian. How can one claim to discover a body of land when there are already inhabitants on that land? This was just the beginning of the discrimination against Native Americans and this discrimination continues to this day. When European