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The Pros And Cons Of Boarding Schools

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Boarding schools were to teach Indian children to become "white" and it impacted them because they were away from there culture and there family. First, the goal of the whites was to make the Indian children forget where they come from by giving them white names, new hair dos, and a lot of other stuff. One action the US did was cutting there Indian hair. According to page 175," But when my hair was cut short, it hurt my feelings to such an extent that tears came into my eyes". This explains that the kids didn't have a choice on wherever or not they could cut their hair, the US just did it. Another action the US took was giving the children white names. Page 37 states," children with Indian names were given Euro-American names and forbidden
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