During the year of 1879, there was an army officer by the name of Richard H. Pratt. Officer Pratt opened a boarding school for The kids that are Indian. The boarding school was located in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. His plan was to use education to take American culture to another level to make it mainstream in other words. That year, 50 Cheyenne, Kiowa, and Pawnee arrived at his school. He began to cut their hair. the kids were required to speak English.they was not able to show or do anything that related to their culture. Things such as Indian clothing, dancing, or religious ceremonies. Pratt's wanted to "kill the Indian and save the man." What’s crazy to me is that it continued in the 19th century, reformers called for the government to support their decision so that schools would teach Indian children "the white man's way of life,". That’s so wrong how they take people and tried to make them one of them basically remaking them. Also they wanted end corruption on Indian reservations, and their tribal organizations. The government thought on it and used some of their ideas. Then the reformers took away corruption in the Indian Bureau, which had been set up in 1824 to provide assistance to Indians. In 1869, one member of the House of Representatives said, "No branch of the federal government is so spotted with fraud, so tainted with corruption...as this Indian Bureau." To end corruption, Congress established the Board of Indian Commissioners in 1869. I feel so bad for them because nobody should have to grow through that. Them being changed and not being able to live there life they want and being able to be themselves. It was evil . At the end of the 19th century so much of this has happen that the Indian population decreased by a lot. They broke up tribes they changed everything you wouldn’t even know they was Indian anymore.
I like that you decided to talk about the Natives and their pursuit of education. However, I do agree with you that forcing the Natives to become "Americanized" was wrong. Just because they looked different, and spoke different, doesn't mean that the white people are any better than them. We are all humans looking to educate ourselves and the white man really made it hell for the Natives to continue on with their life while their land was being taken.
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ReplyDeleteWe had the same perspective on how we both feel about the whole native american. We are as one nothing looks different but our color of our skin but we are all still humans.
Hey Justin! I enjoyed reading your post and I like how you focused on the americanization of the Native Americans. Its truly tragic that they had to cut their hair and leave their cultural practices behind. They did not even receive a good quality of education and were treated as animals rather than human beings.
ReplyDeleteGood sources that you touched on about the Native Americans. It's tragic on how they ended up. I felt bad for the things they have been through and for them to get through it showed that they are very tough.
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