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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. | 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. | ||
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| + | To answer Rebecca's question, I think the intentions of the missionaries, teachers, and other policy makers were self-centered and ridicuolous. I do not think they wanted to genuinely help the Native Americans, their lives seemed alright without the Anglos interference. All their 'help' did was to break down a lot of tradition and history before it could mostly be recorded somehow. I feel like the policies were really intended to get rid of the Native Americans, I mean come on, they wanted the Native Americans to assimilate into white culture, which meant a radical change in a lot of Natives's way of life. I think some of it was religion because for some reasons the Christians couldn't comprehend the idea of freedom of religion in this country, everyone has to be Christian to them, regardless of the basic right. They felt for Natives to be citizens they also had to be Christian, they couldn't keep their previous religion. I'm not really sure how much was racism... -- Ashley Wilkins | ||
