The “rightness” of Native American boarding school

In the 1870s, the American government enacted the assimilation policy of the Americanized Native American. Their goal is to turn them into whites. Schools are an important part of promoting their goals. In 1879, Richard Henry Pratt founded the Carlyle Indian School. This is the first school in the U.S. where indigenous children are culturally exposed to American ideology. The idea of ​​a boarding school comes first from the handling of Cheyenne fighters. In the 1860 's, Americans were in the midst of a mass migration in the west.

After the Indian War in the late 19th century, the United States established a native American boarding school. Originally it was operated by Christian missionaries. At the moment, the American society thinks that Native American children need to adapt to ordinary society. The boarding school experience is often hurt by American native children who are prohibited from speaking their mother tongue, teaching Christianity, and depriving the right to practice the religion of their home country. culture

Beginning in 1887, the federal government tried to 'Americanize' Native Americans primarily through education of indigenous young people. By 1900, thousands of native Americans studied at nearly 150 boarding schools throughout the United States. Founded in Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania in 1879, the American Training and Industrial School is most of these schools. Boarding schools such as Carlisle provide vocational training and manual training to systematically deprive tribal culture. They insisted that students gave up their Indian name, prohibited their mother tongue and cut their long hair. Naturally, these schools are often strongly resisted by Native American parents and young people. But these schools also developed a shared Indian identity beyond tribal boundaries. The following excerpt (from Carlisle founder Capt)