The Native American boarding schools of 1800’s and early 1900’s left a huge crater in the Native American societies.Under the pretense of “helping”devastated Indian Nation the Euro-Americans,created boarding schools of assimilation .Forcing children to attend and sometimes resorting to what would now be kidnapping.Many of these children died from homesickness,working accidents ,uncontrolled disease and ill planned escape attempts.They have were abolished in the 1940’s,but the damage has been done.Languages,culture,and religion were gone when the children returned home.Boarding schools strict military enforcement not only caused Native American children to lose their culture but also make them sick.
American Indians have been educated in Euro-American style education for hundreds of years. Boarding schools were created in an effort to assimilate the American Indian into a the white man’s culture through education. Boarding schools for American Indians still exist today, though they are losing popularity as public and tribal school enrollment increases. Many American Indian students
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First of all, at many of the schools, they instructors and other adults running the schools were vastly outnumbered by the students. This instilled a fear based need to maintain control. One system that had been practiced before when American Indians were held prisoner was this military system . The transformation from prison to board school was easy in terms of disciplining. The military system was also used as a way to continue the assimilation from American Indian into Anglo-American culture.Enforcing a military regiment erased any tribal traditions from the daily routine, since the entire day was expected to be followed as if in the military. This further removed the American Indian student from their