Challenges Faced By Native Americans

2-The idea of challenges Natives face is major, from having to deal with so much, including generations being destroyed and are still in the process of fixing all these problems.
Some which include colonialism, which is defined as the policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically, including Christopher Columbus.
Policy a course or principle of action adopted or proposed by a government, party, business, or individual.
Stereotypes a widely held but are a fixed and oversimplified image or an idea of a particular type of person or thing.
In this biography, Thomas King focused on the main challenges Natives have gone through from the beginning,
So you can imagine all the work that we have to do still. That every community, every child that’s growing, should know is history and, as much as possible, it’s language,” said by a filmmaker, Alanis Obomsawin.
Ultimately in this novel, The Inconvenient Indian; A Curious Account of Indian People in North America by Thomas King, it illustrates how Natives are faced with many challenges throughout their lives.
Colonialism displays how the Europeans were the start of affecting their history.
Generalizing the Natives into stereotypes and policies that were pushed down upon them, while adapting to the lifestyle around them.

4-Colonialism illustrates the start of when Europeans initiated controlling the Native culture, erasing many parts of it.
Occurring from when Christopher Columbus discovered North America and called Natives, “Indians.”
Then comes residential schools where children were separated from their families, losing their identity during that process.
“Kill the Indian in him, not the man,” this is the central motive for how the Natives are supposed to be.
These are just some of the challenges that were caused due to colonialism taking place.

5-In the novel, King was debating whether to start with Christopher Columbus due to the baggage he placed on the
Ultimately, children did not have any extensive contact with family members.
Some things that they had to deal with was them being abused, tortured and many other things. The author, King states how he was sent to a Catholic boarding school at the age of fifteen.
However, it was not exactly like residential school because he is never abused or sexually abused.
While all King wanted to do was come home from the Catholic school, he saw hope in his mother’s eyes that this might help him due to his father not being a part in his life, nor any other male figures.

8-In junior year, he returned back to Roseville and public high school and wanted to keep the Catholic boarding school at the back of his mind.
However, he was unable to do that due to Residential schools started to pop up, quickly.
Later, in 1850, they started to become strict and attendance was compulsory for all children from the ages of six to fifteen, unable to opt out and by non-compliance by parents was punishable by prison terms. (King, 113).
With children unable to ever see their parents during the 10 months being away caused sadness to toll over the children's