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'''Some of the passages I found most striking in this article involved the feelings of inferiority that were internalized by the students, particularly those who had more Cherokee blood.''' Na-li expresses happily that "My complexion does not prevent me from acquiring knowledge and being useful hereafter." [p. 182] That they were so able to associate their own heritage and skin color with their inferior social standing demonstrates the ways that the seminary failed them culturally. On page 185, a male Cherokee seminary graduate celebrates his "whiteness" and says "it is the white blood that made us what we are." It just seems like a pretty high price to pay to find success outside of the Cherokee community. - Erin B. | '''Some of the passages I found most striking in this article involved the feelings of inferiority that were internalized by the students, particularly those who had more Cherokee blood.''' Na-li expresses happily that "My complexion does not prevent me from acquiring knowledge and being useful hereafter." [p. 182] That they were so able to associate their own heritage and skin color with their inferior social standing demonstrates the ways that the seminary failed them culturally. On page 185, a male Cherokee seminary graduate celebrates his "whiteness" and says "it is the white blood that made us what we are." It just seems like a pretty high price to pay to find success outside of the Cherokee community. - Erin B. | ||
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| + | I feel like the the primary attitude and atmosphere of the female seminary was racial ignorance, as seen on Page 181 which says, "The teachers also relentlessly reinforced the importance of learning and retaining the values of white society." It seemed as though the school's main goal was to force any "full-blood" and "half-blood" students to assimilate into the white society, disregarding any traditions or remnants of their previous Cherokee lives. While the seminary prided itself on creating upstanding young women, it also made them very rude, with the attitude of "i'm better than you." There is a prime example on P. 182, which says, "In comparing her tribe and theirs, she pointed out that the Osages listened attentively to the seminarians sing 'Over There,' because, she figured, at least the 'wild and untutored Savage has an ear for music as well as the cultivated and refined.'" The girls may have left seminary "more refined" but in reality, they were just Cherokee girls who threw away their old values and family traditions to transform into a woman more acceptable by white society. --- Alex Mankarios | ||
== US, 194-220, Paige Raibmon, “The Practice of Everyday Colonialism: Indigenous Women at Work in the Hop Fields and Tourist Industry of Puget Sound” == | == US, 194-220, Paige Raibmon, “The Practice of Everyday Colonialism: Indigenous Women at Work in the Hop Fields and Tourist Industry of Puget Sound” == | ||
