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<b>Question:</b> 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 | <b>Question:</b> 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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| + | Before advancing on Rebecca's questions, I wanted to comment on how thoroughly organized this article was. I was able to understand and list the actions boarding schools took to assimilating Native Americans. I think that the intentions of the missionaries and teachers was varied: either both inherently racist and helpful, or one and not the other. In the case of cutting the hair of Native American boys, I was almost positive that this was a racist action toward assimilating their culture. Reading further into the article about changing the names to surnames, and providing the clothes and food, I think that the intentions were more proportional to helping the Native Americans become successful. In the even they made up names, provided poor facilities and were unaccommodating to the Native American children, the teachers and missionaries would have been more racist. But now after looking over all of what I had just written, there had to have been some racist undertone to the assimilating process of "civilizing" Native Americans. --Joe C. | ||
