In “Indian Father’s Plea”, the father desires his son to have a good educational base free from prejudicial hindrances. He believes that American schools should maintain a friendly learning environment. He describes his son’s upbringing through his culture and how it is different from the manner in which his son’s classmates…
An anonymous reformer neatly summated the situation: "Of what use is education to an Indian with consumption? An Indian child learns to read and write, contracts trachoma, is sent home and goes blind. How does that education benefit the blind Indian?" Dr. L. Webster Fox, an outspoken reformer and physician from Philadelphia, expressed himself more conservatively when he noted: "the work of the Indian Service does not make a good showing"(DeJong,…
3. The most encouraging development in the higher education of Native Americans has been in the recent growth of…
Trennert, Robert A. 1983. From Carlisle to Phoenix: The Rise and Fall of the Indian Outing…
Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America. Author: Peter Silver. Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company New York (2008)…
They proposed that Indian children be sent off reservation boarding schools. Where they would be forced to adopt white dress, manners, culture, and language. In the face of this assault on their cultures, Indians found a way to resist, adapt, and hold on to their culture identify. |…
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus. “On Liberal and Vocational Studies.” Reading the World: Ideas That Matter. 2nd ed. Ed. Michael Austin. New York: Norton,2009. 16-23. Print.…
Washburn, Wilcomb E., and Robert Marshall Utley. The American Heritage History of the Indian Wars . New York: American Heritage Pubishing Company, 1977.…
Colson, Elizabeth, 1953. The Makah Indians: A Study of an Indian Tribe in Modern American Society. Manchester, U.K.: Manchester University Press.…
Flying Kites On A Pond (Essay #1 to Jerome Stern's What They Learn In School) Jerome Stern's What They Learned In School challenges the phrase "the sky is the limit" in the case of today's methods of school education. While we are taught that education further develops human characteristics and the understanding of life, Stern points out the ironies. Instead of the intention to expand, to explore, and to inspire, he feels today's education is hypocritical of what it preaches.…
The start was when the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) found the first Indian boarding school in Washington on the Yakima Indian Reservation. The plan was made by eastern reformers Herbert Welsh and Henry Pancoast, who had an original good-intentioned goal for Native Americans to “assimilate” (which means to understand fully) the “American way of life.” In the schools the Native Americans would be taught the importance of private property, material wealth and monogamous nuclear families. As well as that the reformers wanted to ‘civilize’ Native Americans and adjust to the white man’s cultures and beliefs. They believed…
The Eastern Woodland Indians mainly consisted of two major regions the Iroquois, which comprised of five tribes and added an additional a sixth later, and the Cherokee. The Indians in the Eastern Woodland nation lived East of the plains and all the way to the coast, Iroquois in North Eastern currently know as the Ohio area and Cherokee South Eastern currently known as the Tennessee and Georgia area. All Indians lived off the lands hunting, gathering, farming, and fishing all to survive. Men constructed bows and arrows to hunt deer and smaller game, women cultivated garden plots gathering corn, beans, and tobacco. The Seven Years’ War or also know as the French and Indian war, the war was fought between Great Britain and France during the years 1756-1763. Warfare was fought in North Eastern America, involving Indians fighting on both sides aligning beside and against European militias. The outcome entailed the British winning the war and with the assistance of the Indians, the French withdrew and were conquered by British dominance. The central purpose for the Indians was to safeguard their homeland and preserve the land independent of foreign dominance. This is why the Seven Year’ War was a pivotal point in Indian civilization because they displayed that they could hold their North Eastern Land.…
Following the European invasion in America, Native Americans came to endure many problems. While some have faded, others still linger on in their lives. The issue of alcohol and alcoholism is one of them. From settlers using it to deceive, to today’s issues on the reservation, alcohol has played a devastating role in the lives of Native Americans. Knowing how the issue of alcohol became such a predominate part of Native Americans lives will allow us to spawn ideas on how to end the problem.…
Native American education delineated social responsibility, skill orientation, political participation, and spiritual and moral values. The cardinal goals of Native American education were to develop the individual’s latent physical skills and character, inculcate respect for elders and those in authority in the individual, and help the individual acquire specific vocational training (Franklin, 1979). Native American education was also for developing a healthy attitude toward honest labor, developing a sense of belonging and encouraging active participation in community activities. Both boys and girls had equal access to education. Boys were taught by their fathers, uncles, grandfathers, and other male elders. Girls were instructed by their mothers, aunts, grandmothers, female elders and other members of their families. Sometimes, both boys and girls received instruction at the feet of either male or female elders (Mould, 2004). There were barely any dropouts and the community ensured that every child received a full education.…
Historically, Native American tribes have struggled to keep their unique culture identities. This is largely due to the actions made by the federal and state governments as a result of ethnocentrism and indifference. In order to maintain cultural identity, generational traditions must continue from parents to their children and their children’s children. It is the very essence of how culture lives on in families and generations (Basic, 2004). From the time of the 1800’s, the Boarding School Movement, backed by the Federal Government, began the attempted cultural annihilation of the Native…