The U.S government cast natives as ‘Wild Indians,’ thereby marking them as inhuman, which sanctioned such inconceivable violence. They were removed from their village, their families, and left to rot in these asylums, where they were withheld from food, medical care, and nobody was released until they died. The scientific and medical model that promised to “take the Indian out of the man” …show more content…
Our history textbooks are largely written by the white master narrative, which makes them politically bias. Discrimination can only be conquered through education, not colonization. While residential schools are embedded into the Canadian elementary curricula, it discounts several other atrocities from the master narrative, such as the Hiawatha Asylum. Journal articles are mainly accessible through subscription costs or post secondary tuition fees, thereby limiting access to high-income households and youth, which makes it incredibly difficult for Indigenous scholars to raise their