St. Lucy Girls

The girls of “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” and the Native Americans of the forced assimilation into the American culture were both treated poorly and disciplined harshly. The American Indian Relief Council states that, when the Indians of the forced assimilation made a mistake, they were confined and did not receive food (American Indian Relief Council) (1). The Indians were just learning, so it was unfair for the Americans to treat them so poorly. Also, in St. Lucy’s, Mirabella was “shot with a tranquillizer dart” because she did not let the nuns give her a nametag (St. Lucy’s) (239). Correspondingly, when the Indians did not behave like they were expected to, they were locked in a “dark press room,” where the rats would get …show more content…
Lucy’s were forced to learn an entirely new culture against their will. The Unseen Tears video claims that the goal of the assimilation was to “kill the Indian, save the man (unseen tears) (video).” Likewise, the girls of St. Lucy’s had to learn the human culture and leave the wolf in them behind. When girls of St. Lucy’s learned to ride a bicycle like humans, the nuns said, “once you’ve learned how, you’ll never forget (St. Lucy’s) (246).” But the girls were forced to master how to ride a bike, implying that it was just as easy to learn the whole human culture. Although the Indians had to change their religion to Christianity, the girls of St. Lucy’s were controlled by the nuns to convert them from wolves to the “naturalized citizen of human society,” and they had no option but to do as they were ordered (Assimilation Era) (St. Lucy’s) (238). The future of the Indians and the girls was troublesome in their eyes, which created a dilemma between following the path established for them or ready to fight with their bellicose enemies. In the long run, the Americans and the nuns ran boarding schools for the girls and Indians, so they could assimilate into the new culture arranged for