Native American Research Paragraph

Native American Research Paragraph

            Since the late 1800’s the Anglo Americans have been trying to dominate Native Americans via cultural assimilation. Starting in 1860, Anglo Americans have started to create boarding schools to send Native American children. At these schools, the children were taught math, science, and history, but most controversially English and Christianity. This was widely protested by the parents of the Native American children argued that these schools deprived their children of their own spiritual practices. This caused many clashes whit authorities. There were instances of villages that refused in bulk to resist sending their kids to school, resulting in police forcibly take the children from their homes and bring them to the schools. There is no doubt that these schools were an attempt to break the fundamental culture of the Native American culture by attempting to remove the influence of the parents.

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