Adapting to a new culture, the struggles of fitting in, and confronting new people were all colossal tasks to overcome when going through the process of forced assimilation. This process has proved detrimental to some of the Native Americans who went on the Trail of Tears. These steps proved similar to what happened in the short story “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves.” “In Carlisle, PA the American Indian school boasted that it's aim for every Indian child was to "Kill the Indian in him and save the man.”
