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When I wrote that, I didn't even think about Seth's comment that perhaps the young Indian children would undergo physical changes, as well- but it makes a lot of sense and opens up a lot more questions. I guess I was thinking more about the emotional aspect of things. I can't imagine sending your child off to go to school and then having him or her come home with a new haircut and perhaps different clothes. I can only think that it must have increased the tension and generation differences in the household even more. I think her mother could have felt perhaps a bit helpless by these changes- she is supposed to be the provider and caregiver for her children (along with perhaps the tribal community as a whole), and yet she is watching as the white men and missionaries take her children away and they return changed, both physically and perhaps emotionally. I wonder how the children reacted to these changes- did they welcome them and the process of assimilation, or did they wish they were back with their parents and family, and tribe? I wonder if, like Zitkala-Sa, at first they were excited but then came to realize it was very different than what they expected. -Allison Godart | When I wrote that, I didn't even think about Seth's comment that perhaps the young Indian children would undergo physical changes, as well- but it makes a lot of sense and opens up a lot more questions. I guess I was thinking more about the emotional aspect of things. I can't imagine sending your child off to go to school and then having him or her come home with a new haircut and perhaps different clothes. I can only think that it must have increased the tension and generation differences in the household even more. I think her mother could have felt perhaps a bit helpless by these changes- she is supposed to be the provider and caregiver for her children (along with perhaps the tribal community as a whole), and yet she is watching as the white men and missionaries take her children away and they return changed, both physically and perhaps emotionally. I wonder how the children reacted to these changes- did they welcome them and the process of assimilation, or did they wish they were back with their parents and family, and tribe? I wonder if, like Zitkala-Sa, at first they were excited but then came to realize it was very different than what they expected. -Allison Godart | ||
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| + | I wondered the same thing that Allison did, whether Zitkala-Sa actually accepted the new life that the white men had brought her to. I felt like the story should have gone on, that I needed to know more. But, just to speculate on Allison's question, I don't think that it would all be so black and white as to whether the children hated or liked these schools.It was probably a combination of both. There have been records of Native children who had been forced to go to the the white man's schools and many of them did not like it and they either attempted to or did run away. I feel like this is not exactly the same situation, but it is just something to think about. -Kristina.S. | ||
== Mrs. A. M. Greene, in Colorado Territory -- Frontier life – 1887 == | == Mrs. A. M. Greene, in Colorado Territory -- Frontier life – 1887 == | ||
