a. What were the goals of the Indian boarding schools?
Since the time of Thomas Jefferson, there has been an attempt to assimilate the Native American tribes into the European way of life. After the removal and resettlement of the eastern tribes to the Indian Territory day schools are set up to teach the children of the tribe the “right way” of living. This approach proves unsuccessful due to the children’s exposure to their parent’s and their tribe’s traditions at home. This lead to the removal of the children from the influence of their home lives and new homelands.
The next solution is found in the treatment of prisoners of war. This application of policy is where the children lose who they are. Long hair is forbidden, clothes changed. Their language lost as punishment is …show more content…
Others found refuge in the arts like Angel De Cora.
3. What was unique about the Cherokee Female Seminary? The Cherokee Female Seminary is unique in its set up. First, the school is controlled by the tribe and not a government school, so, the tribe has a say in the curriculum. It is set up more of a finishing school in description. This is a school for the upper middle class of Cherokee society, the elite go to non-Indian schools outside of Indian Territory, there are many of the lower strata students on scholarship though.
Another difference is that most of the girls want to be there, or their family wants them to be there. These girls are not scooped up from their lives and shipped across the country. They are taught classics, Latin, mathematics. Like most finishing schools, there is a social structure differing from the government run schools. Here the whiter you are in skin color, and in culture, the higher in status you are placed. This status is not just with the administration and teachers within the school, but within the girls, and the society itself. There is no resentment at the lost of the culture. Here there lacks the commonality of we are in this nightmare
Since the time of Thomas Jefferson, there has been an attempt to assimilate the Native American tribes into the European way of life. After the removal and resettlement of the eastern tribes to the Indian Territory day schools are set up to teach the children of the tribe the “right way” of living. This approach proves unsuccessful due to the children’s exposure to their parent’s and their tribe’s traditions at home. This lead to the removal of the children from the influence of their home lives and new homelands.
The next solution is found in the treatment of prisoners of war. This application of policy is where the children lose who they are. Long hair is forbidden, clothes changed. Their language lost as punishment is …show more content…
Others found refuge in the arts like Angel De Cora.
3. What was unique about the Cherokee Female Seminary? The Cherokee Female Seminary is unique in its set up. First, the school is controlled by the tribe and not a government school, so, the tribe has a say in the curriculum. It is set up more of a finishing school in description. This is a school for the upper middle class of Cherokee society, the elite go to non-Indian schools outside of Indian Territory, there are many of the lower strata students on scholarship though.
Another difference is that most of the girls want to be there, or their family wants them to be there. These girls are not scooped up from their lives and shipped across the country. They are taught classics, Latin, mathematics. Like most finishing schools, there is a social structure differing from the government run schools. Here the whiter you are in skin color, and in culture, the higher in status you are placed. This status is not just with the administration and teachers within the school, but within the girls, and the society itself. There is no resentment at the lost of the culture. Here there lacks the commonality of we are in this nightmare