Phoenix Indian School

Phoenix Indian School was a branch of Indian Affairs that was managed in the school near Encanto Village, which is in the center of Phoenix, Arizona. The Phoenix Indian School was founded in 1891 and was known as United States Industrial School of Phoenix. The school gave chances for Indians to be apart of the American culture and was home to thousands of Indians from all around the United states. The schools was also one of the Bureau of Indian Affairs second biggest off reservation school for Native American meaning that lots of Indians were brought to Arizona for schooling but many of them were from the reservations already here in Arizona. Although the school was to help Indians adapt to American society, the way they were taught was by
As they lived at the school the Indians had to learn to find their dormitories and starting to understanding how going to building to building for their classes. Also, the Indians were “highly regimented, in military style” which was one of the reason why the school was running for many year since discipline helped Indians learned what not to do. Additionally, the boys and girl did do as if they were in the military such as the boy had to carry around rifles but the younger ones needed to carry wooden ones and marched in army units. The Indians were also taught to do the flag ceremonies that often happened when citizens came to visit the school. Some of theses Indian school were made to help Indians fit into American society, such as girls were taught how to cook, wash, sew, do household duties, and also had to learn how to study english language. Indian girls were also becoming servants as “depending on circumstances, these servants were either paid small wage or simply provided with room and bored..” showing how many of the girls were sent to boarding school and then sent out to get jobs and start living lives underneath Americans trying to fall into becoming more accustomed. So while trying to have Indians do more chores Americans do "will be enabled to find profitable employment in white communities, and will thus be prepared, as they could
As it was revealed throughout the essay how the Indian youth were being treated in order to refine their own culture and turn it into American. As such, it said that “upon graduation, Indian children were encouraged to either return home to the reservation where they were to lead their people into a more civilized life, or find menial employment in white society”, however many of them weren’t even permitted into coming back home. But there were always some that could combine both worlds “Some boarding school graduates … were able to combine the best of both Western and traditional education systems in a way that allowed them to adapt to both worlds” to emphasize that yes the Indian School did work for some Indians and it went very well for them. This is historically significant because by having created Phoenix Indian School it allowed opportunities to all Indian children from all throughout United States, but mostly from Arizona to help Indian children learning academics and simple