Assimilation Through Education By Carolyn Marr

Through the years Native Americans have long endured from cultural and social assimilation. Native Americans have had to embrace a culture other than their own for many years. Native Americans have had to cope with a new culture known as “white culture”. There are numerous ways by which natives were obligated to learn the new culture. For instance, early colonist believed that through education could a native assimilate to their new culture thus leading to the foundation of boarding schools. In “Assimilation through Education” an intriguing essay by Carolyn Marr it goes into great detail explaining the idea of boarding schools. As Marr states that the overall goal of boarding schools was to “ease the assimilation of Indian people into the