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After reading this article, I was wondering what the separation did to Sioux families.  I think the structure of their families already drastically changed with the introduction of the reservation system.  But especially with the "forced procurement" of children, the traditional culture began to decline rapidly.  Because so much of their culture was taught and learned (and I don't mean from books), sending children to a foreign school wiped out chances to instill Sioux (or Navajo, Comanche, Kiowa, Caddo...) identity and caused traditional family structure to fall apart.--Amanda
 
After reading this article, I was wondering what the separation did to Sioux families.  I think the structure of their families already drastically changed with the introduction of the reservation system.  But especially with the "forced procurement" of children, the traditional culture began to decline rapidly.  Because so much of their culture was taught and learned (and I don't mean from books), sending children to a foreign school wiped out chances to instill Sioux (or Navajo, Comanche, Kiowa, Caddo...) identity and caused traditional family structure to fall apart.--Amanda
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What do you think about the intentions of the missionaries, teachers, and other policy makers who were behind the boarding schools? Do you think genuinely wanted to help Native Americans? Or they were trying to get rid of them? How much of their policy was about religion? How much was about racism? -- Rebecca

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