The Agony of So-Called Civilization
“Kill the Indian and save the man (Boxer).” According to a popular Indian boarding school principal in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, the objective for civilization in Indian boarding schools and, in “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves,” was to basically train students to become someone they were not. When students entered into these schools, instructors practically tried to obliterate all knowledge from the students’ preceding culture. This was possible because students went without seeing their parents, and as a result many students became extremely homesick. However, all of these conditions were considered necessary for a student to adapt to a foreign lifestyle, students not seeing their relatives, and students being mandated to hate where they came from.…