Impact of Carlisle Boarding Schools on Native Americans by https://padlet.com/dawilliamson90/qttfycgb1mnn en-us 2018-08-10 12:26:32 UTC 2023-03-29 22:35:44 UTC hello@padlet.com The boarding school utilized religion as a means to "Americanize" the students, leading to internal conflict and estrangement from their families' beliefs. dawilliamson90 https://padlet.com/dawilliamson90/qttfycgb1mnn/wish/272614584 2018-08-10 12:27:27 UTC https://padlet.com/dawilliamson90/qttfycgb1mnn/wish/272614584 “I hope you will understand exactly what I mean and you should think that way. I want you must give up Indian way.” -L. Standing Bear dawilliamson90 https://padlet.com/dawilliamson90/qttfycgb1mnn/wish/272614631 This quote comes from a letter that a student of the Carlisle Boarding School wrote to his father. A month prior, L. Standing Bear wrote a letter, stating how he will "try as hard as (he) can" to uphold his Native American values while learning English. How did L. Standing Bear's beliefs drastically change in a month?]]> 2018-08-10 12:28:07 UTC https://padlet.com/dawilliamson90/qttfycgb1mnn/wish/272614631 “I want you must give up the Indian ways, you must turn to the good way and try to walk in it, the way of which is God love." -L. Standing Bear dawilliamson90 https://padlet.com/dawilliamson90/qttfycgb1mnn/wish/272614710 A year later, L. Standing Bear is no longer wishing for his father to give up the "Indian way"; now, he is demanding it. His position is clear; if L. Standing Bear is asserting that his father must walk in the "good way," then that implies his father's Native American lifestyle is the wrong way. ]]> 2018-08-10 12:29:10 UTC https://padlet.com/dawilliamson90/qttfycgb1mnn/wish/272614710 Boarding schools stripped away Native American culture from students. dawilliamson90 https://padlet.com/dawilliamson90/qttfycgb1mnn/wish/272614771 2018-08-10 12:30:14 UTC https://padlet.com/dawilliamson90/qttfycgb1mnn/wish/272614771 “Boarding schools like Carlisle provided vocational and manual training and sought to systematically strip away tribal culture. They insisted that students drop their Indian names, forbade the speaking of native languages, and cut off their long hair.” -Kill the Indian, and Save the Man dawilliamson90 https://padlet.com/dawilliamson90/qttfycgb1mnn/wish/272620237 2018-08-10 13:19:08 UTC https://padlet.com/dawilliamson90/qttfycgb1mnn/wish/272620237 “Once there, they were systematically shorn of their hair, their traditional clothes, and their languages.” -No Place to Go dawilliamson90 https://padlet.com/dawilliamson90/qttfycgb1mnn/wish/272620261 2018-08-10 13:19:25 UTC https://padlet.com/dawilliamson90/qttfycgb1mnn/wish/272620261 At the end of their boarding school experience, hundreds of Native American youth felt alienated; they weren’t recognized as citizens in American society, and their values now differed from their tribe. dawilliamson90 https://padlet.com/dawilliamson90/qttfycgb1mnn/wish/272621029 2018-08-10 13:24:35 UTC https://padlet.com/dawilliamson90/qttfycgb1mnn/wish/272621029 “We have never made any attempt to civilize them with the idea of taking them into the nation, and all of our policies have been against citizening and absorbing them.” -Kill the Indian, and Save the Man dawilliamson90 https://padlet.com/dawilliamson90/qttfycgb1mnn/wish/272621202 This quote, from a paper read by Carlisle founder Captain Richard H. Pratt at an 1892 convention, captures the paradox of the Americanization of boarding school youth. Pratt recognizes that society will not accept "civilized" Native Americans; however, that does not halt his efforts to force upon "Americanized" values upon the boarding school youth.]]> 2018-08-10 13:26:26 UTC https://padlet.com/dawilliamson90/qttfycgb1mnn/wish/272621202 “At best, they returned to homes where they were neither comfortable nor welcome. At worst, they died alone in distant places, all in the name of the misguided and destructive policy of assimilation, which some have termed ‘cultural genocide.’” -No Place to Go dawilliamson90 https://padlet.com/dawilliamson90/qttfycgb1mnn/wish/272621378 Discharge records from the Carlisle Boarding School further supports this statement. The records show that only a fraction of students graduated; as seen on the list, only a few seemed to secure jobs. What was the purpose of the vocational training and schooling, if society never planned to accept them? ]]> 2018-08-10 13:28:13 UTC https://padlet.com/dawilliamson90/qttfycgb1mnn/wish/272621378 What do you think? dawilliamson90 https://padlet.com/dawilliamson90/qttfycgb1mnn/wish/272624827 Add your thoughts below.]]> 2018-08-10 13:56:00 UTC https://padlet.com/dawilliamson90/qttfycgb1mnn/wish/272624827 dawilliamson90 https://padlet.com/dawilliamson90/qttfycgb1mnn/wish/272631057 These quotes describe the forced assimilation of the Carlisle Boarding School. By stripping the personal style of the Native American youth from them, the administrators of the boarding school gave the students no autonomy. ]]> 2018-08-10 14:43:27 UTC https://padlet.com/dawilliamson90/qttfycgb1mnn/wish/272631057