Native Indians were forced into goverment boarding schools and stripped of their Native American Culture...they could not speak their language..or keep their Indian names...
What are your thoughts on this???
How do the Indians feel about this.....was your ancestors apart of this....
Could it have been handled in a more civil way...Was it right to take their land...please be respectful...
2006-10-19 04:41:18 · 5 answers · asked by coopchic 5 in Social Science ➔ Other - Social Science
My mom was taken from her village and raised in a Catholic boarding school in Alaska. She hardly knows her own native language (Yup 'ik-Inuit). My thoughts are: Do the same to the white man, only in reverse. Yes it could have been handled in a more civil way, but the white man always thinks his way is best. No it wasn't right to take their land. Who made the white man King and Ruler of all? Besides his weapons? The Natives should regroup, and take back everything that was taken from them. Most now live off the government tit, because they can't live like they used too. SHAME SHAME on the white man.
2006-10-19 04:55:08 · answer #1 · answered by Chris 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I loath the fact that my ansectors did anything like that. It was wrong, the natives were angered of course by this. I do not know if any of my ansestors worked at one of those schools, I know that they wouldn'd have been students there. I also find it wrong that we pushed the aldults into small reverations. As for the boarding schools I really can't believe that Richard H. Part ever could have dreamed it up. his idea was called "Kill the Indian and save the man." a shame isn't it? They shamed the kids cutting their hair, taking thier names and most of all stealing their religion.
2006-10-19 18:34:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think that rather than being assimilated Native Amercians were foced to live on reservations. This isolated them from mainstream America. I think it left them feeling there was no place they belonged or were accepted. They were and are a discriminated people. Many live in poverty and there is a real problem with the quality of education on the "res" and alcoholism is a real problem. I have tried to give you my respectful opinion.
2006-10-19 11:57:00 · answer #3 · answered by MUD 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No it wasn't particularly "right" thing to do. It was more of a time of survival of the fitest back in that age however. The stronger society has always taken over the weaker. Doesn't mean it is right but it is the way of the world.
2006-10-19 11:56:11 · answer #4 · answered by golden oldy 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It was, for lack of a better word, genocide. It was a lesson in blind
fearfull mob violence done on a governmental level. Yes it could have been done in a better way, as fellow human beings with kindness and respect. instead, greed for gold and land took over.
2006-10-19 11:56:16 · answer #5 · answered by kekeke 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋