There is an unknown history of Native Americans that many students do not know about, in particular because it isn’t taught in modern day history books. In particular, the boarding schools are something not taught to us, these schools were made to assimilate Native Americans into the U.S. culture, but they failed as institutions. Instead of actually americanizing the native people, they would abuse them and commit many other crimes towards these children, majority of time it would go unnoticed. To get a better understanding of what has happened within Indian country with the boarding schools its important to take into consideration the thoughts of those who experienced living in them. Even though the boarding schools tried to americanize the Natives, the end result was …show more content…
government founded 153 boarding schools, by 1900 there was 17,708 students in boarding schools. The boarding school system came into place as Reyna Green states with “The goal of putting Indians to school was relatively uniform: they were to become, insofar as possible, white men.”() Americans continually came into this community to take over their land, but at some point they decided that not only did they want land, they wanted to, “Kill the Indian in him and save the man.” The school administrators would cut the children’s hair and changed their dress, their names and subjected them to military discipline. Although they tried in every way to change the Native Americans, there was resistance, students would tell tribal traditions in secret, they would storyteller and do dances. Some even ran away, they would fight against the administrators as time progressed, parents took notice of what was going on and they refused to send their children away. In the end there was proof these schools were not successful. One can see it through the Meriam Report commissioned by the United States concluded that the federal school boarding system gad failed in its attempt to educate Indian