In Indian Schools: Stories of Survival, we saw the effects of forced assimilation amongst Native Americans in the US and Canada during 1800's and 1900's. Our textbook Cultural Anthropology defines assimilation as "The process by which a society experiencing acculturation changes so much that it is hardly distinguishable from a more dominant one" (Carpo 2013).I was surprised to learn in the film how much the American government wanted dismantle the Native American culture and traditions to replace them with there own culture. The government would take these children from the families and send them schools to teach them a new culture, tradition and religion. The American government decided to assimilate Native American children in Western culture
