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"... This was a very heartbreaking and emotional piece of art for me to make, but I wanted through my art to help people understand, process and hopefully, begin to heal from our collective historical trauma."

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WINNER: Assimilation Through Education by Irene Spotted Elk

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WINNER: Assimilation Through Education by Irene Spotted Elk

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"So you may know I have made a newspaper about this topic because I wanted my project to be different. Also because I had a Holocaust unit and we got to choose what kind of project we could do, and I decided to make a newspaper, which I really liked doing. I got my sources from articles from PBS, and a Person who interviewed  her family and others who had been through the whole process of this assimilation. Her name was Dr.Lajimodiere she had some very good information on the boarding schools. I have also learned about the trauma the kids went through. However there were some good benefits the kids got, specifically an education, and life skills that were forced upon them but at least they knew how their society would work when they were old enough to live by themself. But personally I think the boarding schools had more cons than pros. Yes they offered educational education, but in reality the whole process was to make the Indians full American and forget their Native Culture. That was basically the assimilation that society wanted back then. It would be like the government trying to make me forget my hispanic culture and to never speak spanish. I also think it was good that these kids made life lasting  friends with the other kids. At least the children had kids who understood what they were all going through within the boarding school. I really enjoyed my research about this topic because in general I didn’t know there were even Indian boarding schools, especially the whole assimilation part."

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RUNNER-UP: Assimilation thru Education for Indian Boarding Schools - Jocelyn Cortez

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RUNNER-UP: Assimilation thru Education for Indian Boarding Schools - Jocelyn Cortez

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'My piece is entitled  “The White Mans Burden” and it is an attempt to capture the troubled relationship between “good intentioned” American governmental and religious leaders and the Native American children they pulled from their families and cultures and placed in boarding schools that were torture chambers than educational facilities. The entire ridiculous philosophy can be summed up by Indian Industrial School founder R. H. Pratt, who famously said “Kill the Indian, Save the Man.”'

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HONORABLE MENTION: The White Mans Burden by Paige Tocco

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HONORABLE MENTION: The White Mans Burden by Paige Tocco

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Healing from Our Historical Trauma by LaPrinceia Whistling Elk

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Healing from Our Historical Trauma by LaPrinceia Whistling Elk

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Healing from our historical trauma refers to the boarding schools that have taken our ancestors away from their families, communities and cultures over the years. Although many survived, yet were disconnected from their tribal cultures, other children and teens lost their lives through the experience. And even today, we as Native peoples are STILL experiencing not only the continued effects of our grandparents' and great- grandparents' trauma in the form of substance abuse, lateral violence and suicide, but we also continue to have many of our people disappear and be murdered, as during the boarding school era.

The Native girl in my image with the red hand on her face represents today's Missing and Murdered people as well as those of the past.

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"The following is my submitted essay: The History of Native American Boarding Schools. "

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The History of Native American Boarding Schools by Sophina Stewart

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The History of Native American Boarding Schools by Sophina Stewart

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"I wrote an essay talking about the native american boarding schools."