Richard Henry Pratt

first five years of their lives were trampled on. To add insult to injury, the first efforts of assimilation through boarding schools was headed by Captain Richard Henry Pratt in 1879 (Marr, n.d.). Pratt is known for saying, “kill the Indian and save the man” and believing that Native Americans were inferior to white people (Marr, n.d.). Pratt believed that the only way to add Natives to the American melting pot was by transforming them through education. The schedule set for the students was harsh

When two peoples fight for the good life are contradictory. Leading to one achieving the good life while the others is sacrificed, power structures are formed and positions of privilege are created. This can lead to generations of individuals never achieving the good life. All while other individuals reap the benefits. This will cause the disadvantaged group to eventually take action against their oppressors by disrupting the system of subjugation, or perhaps find peace with them habilitating the

individualism. This was the opposite teaching of what is instilled in Indian children by their elders, Indian believe in communal ownership and that the land is for everyone. In 1879 the establishment of Carlisle Indian School was created. Col. Richard Henry Pratt established the school due to his belief that by immersing the Indian children into white society they would start identifying as white and not return to the reservation and their Indian ways. Pratt’s motto was “kill the Indian, save the man”

000 buffalo that had roamed the plains dwindled to a crisis point for the Natives. In the following 7 years after that, the buffalo had perished, and the tribes that had depended on them were surviving on handouts from the government. When Richard Henry Pratt decided to take young indigenous people

assimilation possible, federal boarding schools were established outside the reservations, and were quite far from the reservations. The phrase chosen encapsulate this federal policy was expressed by “the Father of the US Boarding School Movement,” Richard Henry Pratt, in 1890 as follows: “Kill the Native American and save the man” (Hirschfelder 129) meaning destroy the identity of the Native Americans and then build them into the dominant White society. To achieve this goal, federal boarding schools deprived

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

leap in colonization of American was to get all the people in the nation on the same page; meaning speaking the same language, same culture, same beliefs, and same leaders. This is known as assimilation, which the book Racial and Ethnic Groups by Richard T. Schaefer refers to as “The process by which a subordinate individual or group takes on the characteristics of the dominant group and is eventually accepted as part of that group.” Regardless, the native tribal people would try to live by their

Other think of the war of 1812 as the “second war of independence”. For too long were the Indian tribes treated as government possessions and were regularly assigned agent to oversee their personal affairs. They were considered to be incompetent and needed to be micromanaged. Independence is a word the Indians recognize all too well and they continue to fight for complete independence today. The United States claimed that one of its justification for the war included British violations of the

Americans were not immune to. There is at least one instance in 1763 that could constitute biological warfare. Guenther Lewy states the following: “ Sir Jeffrey Amherst, commander-in-chief of British forces in North America, wrote as follows to Colonel Henry Bouquet at Fort Pitt:”You will do well to try to inoculate the Indians [with smallpox] by means of blankets, as well as to try every other method, that can serve to extirpate this execrable race.” (Lewy, 2004). This tactic was repeated on June 20,

Restraints on Education for Non-Whites The U.S population consists of several different groups of people all of whom have been a part of our nations history because they have been here since the country was formed or have emigrated from their homelands. The population represents people of different backgrounds, cultures, races, etc. These groups of people are not all accepted into society due to the differences in culture and race. In the U.S, Whites are the superior race, which means that non-whites