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Residential Schools And Why Many Avoid Reservation Life

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Braidyn Morse, Mr.Heacht Ela, 10 5-24-24 Cultural Loss and Boarding Schools and Why Many Avoid Reservation Life. The history of the Native American residential schools is very sad and depressing because of the loss of culture and forced adaptation to the bad living conditions. For a long time Native American children were forcibly taken away from their families to get their culture taken out of them and for them to forget it and be ashamed of it. How “Junior leaves the reservation, and just like how others were forced to leave for school and chose to leave for other reasons” but Junior was not forced like other kids. Junior wanted to leave the reservation, but other kids did not want to and they were forcibly taken away from their families. …show more content…

The reason the residential schools had treated the students badly was because of multiple reasons. The institutions were aiming to forcibly absorb American culture. By getting rid of their native language and the way they dress at the reservations and other cultural things. They usually used very harsh discipline and punishments for very little problems. The “Residential schools included parenting models based on punishment, abuse, coercion, and control” the Canadian Encyclopedia. This quote is talking about how the residential schools were using parenting methods of punishment but they were using it in a harsher way. The Residential schools also sexually assaulted the students, raped them, grouped them and did other inappropriate sexual things with them. "Well, in the early days of humans, the community was our only protection against predators and starvation. We survived because we trusted one another." p.g. 132 In this quote in The True Diary of a part-time Indian. It talks about how the teachers were predators and how the only reason they survived was because they had each …show more content…

Native Americans don't want to stay on the reservation because they have very limited economic opportunities. They have poor living conditions and not good enough jobs to support their family, so they have to go live in the city and get jobs that pay enough to support their family. Approximately “78% of Native Americans do not live on a reservation” And 72% of Native Americans live in urban areas.theguardian.com. They also do not get a good education living on the reservation because they can't afford newer stuff to get the proper education. And they don't want to live on the reservation because their culture is slowly going away as time goes on. “But we Indians don't get to realize our dreams. We don't get those chances. Or a choice of two. We're just a little poor. That's all we are.” P.g. 13 In this quote in The true diary of a part-time Indian. It talks about how they won't get to achieve their dreams and make the choices they want or dream about because their life can not support it. The downfall of the native culture is sad but it is happening because of historical trauma from the past of being taken away from their families at a young age and forcibly taken to a boarding school.“kill the Indian to save the child” p.g 35. This quote talks about how if they take the Indian out of them it will save him from Indian culture. “Indigenous peoples have been threatened for centuries as development

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