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| − | Before reading Devon Mihesuah's article on the class system in the Cherokee semiaries, I didn't have any prior knowldege to these schools, how they were instructed and would've thouht that the teacher would be white. I found it surprising that whites would hire mixed-Cherokees to teach these children, having already deprived THEM of their roots and brainwashing them into doing this to the younger generation. I found it kind of sad that the teachers believed that the more white the Cherokee girl had in her, the smarter she was whereas pure Cherokee girls as pathetic for holding on to their traditional ways and not advancing up to the ideals of the white world. Emely A. | + | Before reading Devon Mihesuah's article on the class system in the Cherokee semiaries, I didn't have any prior knowldege to these schools, how they were instructed and would've thouht that the teacher would be white. I found it surprising that whites would hire mixed-Cherokees to teach these children, having already deprived THEM of their roots and brainwashing them into doing this to the younger generation. I found it kind of sad that the teachers believed that the more white the Cherokee girl had in her, the smarter she was whereas pure Cherokee girls as pathetic for holding on to their traditional ways and not advancing up to the ideals of the white world which was "better". Emely A. |
