In Thomas King’s novel The Inconvenient Indian displays ideas of assimilation and the Aboriginals non-compliance in adapting into an orthodox North American community. North Americans believe that Aboriginals are unruly; integration - or, tolerance of Aboriginals - into western culture can only occur once they adopt Christianity and lose their Aboriginal culture. Governments and other groups throughout history are pursuing a cultural genocide against the Aboriginal peoples in an attempt to assimilate their culture. Examples of just a few of the injustices that they were facing are: constant relocation, immoral mistreatment of Aboriginals, imposing unfavourable treaties, and forcing religion. King responds to this argument no differently than
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The constant movement was damaging to Aboriginals, but successful in dismissing the tribes from white North American life. Since Aboriginal peoples could not integrate into the western culture the government thought to eliminate and isolate them from North American communities. However, with the building of western infrastructure and expansion of cities was encroaching on Aboriginal land, lead to the government arbitrarily taking more land originally given to the Aboriginals. American government also were collecting more land and disregarding various treaties through the use …show more content…
Richard Pratt was advocating to “[k]ill the Indian, save the man.” (Thomas King, The Inconvenient Indian, 105) In assimilating the Native culture Pratt was hoping to integrate Aboriginals into North American communities and share a common religion that bonds both Native and European men alike. Instructors where instilling religion above anything else that was being tough in the school curriculum. Essentially this was further dividing the Native children from their culture and assimilating them into western culture. Furthermore, these schools were allowing the physical, mental, and sexual abuse of the students in these schools.The sad reality is that North Americans thought that the Aboriginals could not be left to practice their own religion and traditions. Native peoples were instead facing brutal mistreatment from the instructors in these schools they could not do anything about it, because attendance for Native children was mandatory and punishable by law. This example is coherent with the cultural genocide of Aboriginals and their youth. Many individuals were “advocating assimilation” (Thomas King, The Inconvenient Indian, 114) The main goal was to purge North America of Aboriginal culture, because it was inferior to Western culture. Thus, North American religious groups and governments thought to assimilate
The constant movement was damaging to Aboriginals, but successful in dismissing the tribes from white North American life. Since Aboriginal peoples could not integrate into the western culture the government thought to eliminate and isolate them from North American communities. However, with the building of western infrastructure and expansion of cities was encroaching on Aboriginal land, lead to the government arbitrarily taking more land originally given to the Aboriginals. American government also were collecting more land and disregarding various treaties through the use …show more content…
Richard Pratt was advocating to “[k]ill the Indian, save the man.” (Thomas King, The Inconvenient Indian, 105) In assimilating the Native culture Pratt was hoping to integrate Aboriginals into North American communities and share a common religion that bonds both Native and European men alike. Instructors where instilling religion above anything else that was being tough in the school curriculum. Essentially this was further dividing the Native children from their culture and assimilating them into western culture. Furthermore, these schools were allowing the physical, mental, and sexual abuse of the students in these schools.The sad reality is that North Americans thought that the Aboriginals could not be left to practice their own religion and traditions. Native peoples were instead facing brutal mistreatment from the instructors in these schools they could not do anything about it, because attendance for Native children was mandatory and punishable by law. This example is coherent with the cultural genocide of Aboriginals and their youth. Many individuals were “advocating assimilation” (Thomas King, The Inconvenient Indian, 114) The main goal was to purge North America of Aboriginal culture, because it was inferior to Western culture. Thus, North American religious groups and governments thought to assimilate