How To Kill The Indian Save The Man

Since the initial colonization of the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States have stood firmly against physical and cultural genocide, fighting through negative stereotypes, forced assimilation, the influences of drugs and alcohol, injustice, as well as lack of advocacy even into the present. Native Americans took action through militant and peaceful protests, social action, as well as legal confrontation to combat racism and discrimination in and to their culture.
“Kill the Indian, save the man” was a prime example of the struggle of cultural genocide via forced assimilation. The Indian boarding school projects, where Native American children were taken away from their families, destroying maternal and sibling relationships, and assimilated into an unfamiliar culture. Native children forced into the “Kill the Indian save the man” initiative were disconnected almost entirely from their tribal culture: native children were restricted from speaking their own language, using their traditional names for they received new names, …show more content…
Founded in July 1968 in Minneapolis, Minnesota in response to police brutality and injustice, A.I.M. would quickly grow into a large and prominent Advocacy group and “spiritual movement.” for Native …show more content…
It does not take a humanitarian to see what Native Americans have endured and continue to endure into the present, it only takes someone with a basic sense of morality. Dennis Banks stated that Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing and to this day they still fight against injustice and