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Native American education today is not what you would expect. According to the thousands of Indians who attend these boarding schools, they are largely known as a time of desecration of culture. These schools began because the U.S. Government called the Indians “savages” and that Indian parents should be forced to send their children to school. Until recently, white people used to think that “...[T]he only good Indian is a dead one…” but now they’re trying to change their looks, the way they act, think, and speak. In white schools, they are normally treated well, however in Indian boarding schools they rely on violence to teach the students how to behave. Indian Times interviewed a student named Bill Wright who stated that an advisor abused another student. According to Wright, the teacher “busted his head open and got blood all over… [Wright] had to take him to the hospital, and the advisors told [him] to tell them he ran into a wall and that [he] better not tell them what really happened.” Children that are attending these schools are obviously being very poorly treated. In addition to being beaten, they’re underfed and being forced to do heavy labor. Traditional Indian foods are not allowed, which means that these students are also currently learning the food rites of white society, such as the use of napkins, tablecloths, and utensils like knives, forks, etc. Students are also forbidden to talk in their own Native languages, including to each other. The Caucasian (white) advisers who run and work at these boarding schools actually do believe that they are doing the right thing and bettering Native American children. The curriculum apparently focuses mostly on trades, for example carpentry for boys and housekeeping for girls. Many teachers still see their role as civilizing as well as assimilating American Indian students, not educating them. This wraps up the report of Native American education today written by Indian Times.
Top: A group of Chiricahua Apache students on their first day at Carlisle Indian School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Bottom: The same students four months later.
Tom Torlino, a Carlisle School student, before and after spending time at a school.

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For as many sunrises as i can remember the Kiowa tribe has used our songs and dances to worship the Gods. Music is the language of our Gods. One day when one of our men was in the woods he heard a strange noise, when he found where the noise is coming from he saw the Red Wolf dancing on its hind legs to the music. He watched all night and in the morning the wolf told him to bring the dances back to the people. When the Redwolf brought this dance to us, our leaders had us build our arenas on the reserve to dance in. The Redwolf told the men to dance in a circular motion around the drums in the center of the arena. The dance is very simple with “participants lifting their heels with the beat of their drums and shaking their rattles”. Us women were told to dance outside of the men’s circle in the same movements. Anyone can participate whether you are fully native or mixed with both parents being from different races. Anyone is welcome to join in the dances as long as you are in the correct place in the arena and showing respect to the gods.

The American Men have tried for years to take our land and culture away from us. Now the American men have told us that we can’t perform the Red Wolf dance. In recent suns “The United States government began to actively enforce bans on these dances”. If the Americans tell us that we can’t dance to praise our Gods then we will have to do it in secret to keep our gods happy. If the Gods aren’t happy we won’t have plentiful harvests. If they take our dances from us then they are trying to take away our culture.

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After hearing about the Removal Act being signed, many natives and citizens are in a frenzy. Last week after the first Spring harvest, President Jackson signed the “Indian Removal Act”. Some tribes are leaving peacefully but the Cherokee Natives are being forcefully removed from their homes. Many people are shocked after hearing that almost 4,000 Cherokee Natives have been killed while trying to rebel, or have died during the walk. However, it is not just our local Cherokee Natives being forced out. The Removal Act that President Jackson signed states that all Natives in the South East must be relocated to the Western US.

“Indians all over the South East are being forced out of their homes, which opens up thousands of acres to add to my plantation!”, says local plantation owner John White. One of our reporters, Squanto Washington reported the following, “Many of the families I have talked to are sick and too weak to talk but have no choice but to continue. One family lost three children and their grandmother, all of which were to weak to continue.” All of the Native lands over the South East will be transformed into slave powered plantations once all of the natives are gone. President Jackson almost carelessly threw the Natives of our South East region to grow cotton and many other cash crops. Many of these Cherokee Natives look forward to the day when they are no longer under the thumb of the United States government.

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The healer of the Native Americans are known as Medicine Men or Women in North America. Using plants, roots, and herbs to spiritually heal a person. This tradition goes back to hundreds of years before the 1800’s. Herbal remedies fill an important role to healing practices, pains and to the spirit. Certain plants are seen as sacred. These practices have been passed down to my great grandparents to me orally. My great grandfather and my father are the Medicine Men in my tribe. When someone is ill, they get the community together to dance, pray, and chant for the ill. When the Europeans arrived to our tribe a few years back, they had given us deadly diseases. Beware of small pox and influenza.

When the diseases came, they wiped out hundreds of our people, making it harder to find remedies. The white man disease also killed many of our Medicine Men. We have no immunity or resistance to it. Many tribes believe that disease are caused by humans and spirits. Beating drums and shaking rattles while dancing around the ill was a way to heal the patients. Being the Medicine person is a full time job, checking on the well being and balance of the individuals. Our people believe that all things in nature is connected and that the spirits can heal or cause illnesses. So it is important to heal not only the physical parts of an individual, but their emotions and their harmony with their community and environment.

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