Native American Generations Reflection Paper

For the presentation about Native American Generations I had the role of looking at the perspectives of the two generations and comparing them to each other. It was hard to really to distinguish between the two generations in the books but I was able to gather enough information to present to the class. Through this class I have been able to learn a lot about the Native American community and understand them a little bit more. As a group when we started talking about this presentation I actually wasn’t in that class due to a softball tournament. I was chosen to give the part on perspectives of the two generations and was a little confused at first. I didn’t really understand what we were doing and I just started to read the chapter in Treuer’s book named “Perspectives.” I felt like this was a good starting point and noticed that there wasn’t a lot about the two generations in that chapter. I was at a dead end and went to our other book in order to find information between the generations. I gathered some information from that book so I was starting to feel better about the presentation. I didn’t have enough information though to give a portion of a meaningful presentation so I went back through Treuer’s book and looked through other …show more content…
Treuer explained, “The idea of the schools had less to do with giving children an education than it did with taking away their culture” (Treuer, 2012, p. 138). The boarding schools really hurt the Native American community in all aspects. The Native American communities don’t really have to deal with this problem anymore but they are still feeling some effects to this day. I think that I could find a way to work this information into my paper because right now it seems very important to me, to let people know what happened to these people and how badly they were