Lomawaima And Mccarty: Chapter Analysis
Class Reading Theme
Acculturation or submission to the dominant culture has been a common theme throughout the world and it is widely prevalent in Lomawaima and McCarty’s book. In chapter 2 of Lomawaima & McCarty (2006), a young, Native American person recounted a story where he was marched off to become a student of the Carlisle Indian School; the student thought he was going to his death, but the intended victim was his language, culture, and way of life (Paragraph 1). Native American cultures were viewed as obsolete and even harmful to society, so the federal government stepped in to assert its authority.
For the reasons above, Native Americans were seen child-like people, no matter the age, and because of this view few administrators of education in the early days of U.S. federal oversight seemed to encourage an assimilationist view in the sense of integrated classrooms by race; the dominant view was to prepare students for their proper roles in society (Indigenous Education Versus Native American Schooling, Para 1). Furthermore, in chapter 3 of Lomawaima & McCarty (2006), these views encouraged misguided efforts to educate Native Americans into their perceived lower class and helped to justify the relegation of the …show more content…
2). The article by Bunce & McElreath provides a succinct analysis and description of interactions between ethnic groups and provides a research study between two cultures to show the examination process used in a real-life scenario (2017, p. 1). “Five mechanisms are used, and they include bargaining, interaction-frequency-biased norm adoption, assortment on norms, success-biased interethnic social learning, and childhood socialization” (Bunce & McElreath, 2017). A detailed description of each mechanism can be located in the article and a cursory glance is explored in this
Acculturation or submission to the dominant culture has been a common theme throughout the world and it is widely prevalent in Lomawaima and McCarty’s book. In chapter 2 of Lomawaima & McCarty (2006), a young, Native American person recounted a story where he was marched off to become a student of the Carlisle Indian School; the student thought he was going to his death, but the intended victim was his language, culture, and way of life (Paragraph 1). Native American cultures were viewed as obsolete and even harmful to society, so the federal government stepped in to assert its authority.
For the reasons above, Native Americans were seen child-like people, no matter the age, and because of this view few administrators of education in the early days of U.S. federal oversight seemed to encourage an assimilationist view in the sense of integrated classrooms by race; the dominant view was to prepare students for their proper roles in society (Indigenous Education Versus Native American Schooling, Para 1). Furthermore, in chapter 3 of Lomawaima & McCarty (2006), these views encouraged misguided efforts to educate Native Americans into their perceived lower class and helped to justify the relegation of the …show more content…
2). The article by Bunce & McElreath provides a succinct analysis and description of interactions between ethnic groups and provides a research study between two cultures to show the examination process used in a real-life scenario (2017, p. 1). “Five mechanisms are used, and they include bargaining, interaction-frequency-biased norm adoption, assortment on norms, success-biased interethnic social learning, and childhood socialization” (Bunce & McElreath, 2017). A detailed description of each mechanism can be located in the article and a cursory glance is explored in this