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Imagine you are an American Indian student returning from a year at one of these schools. You decide to write a letter explaining why no more children should be sent to the white boarding schools. What arguments would you make, and how? Put your case in a three to four paragraph persuasive essay.

Answer 1

The government paid religious orders to provide basic education to Native American children on reservations. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) founded additional boarding schools based on the assimilation model of the off-reservation Carlisle Indian Industrial School.The federal government began sending American Indians to off-reservation boarding schools in the 1870s, when the United States was still at war withIndians. An Army officer, Richard Pratt, founded the first of these schools.In the 1870s and 1880s a few small reservation boarding schools were established on the Chehalis, Skokomish and Makah Reservations. These institutions, which had fewer than 50 students, were all closed by 1896 and replaced by day schools.By the 1880s, the U.S. operated 60 schools for 6,200 Indian students, including reservation day schools and reservation boarding schools.The Carlisle Indian Industrial School was founded in October 1879 and was designed to assimilate students into the mainstream culture. It was housed in Carlisle, PA at the Carlisle Barracks, now the home of the U.S. Army War College. A boarding school provides education for pupils who live on the premises, as opposed to a day school. The word "boarding" is used in the sense of "room and board", i.e. lodging and meals. As they have existed for many centuries, and now extend across many countries, their function and ethos varies greatly. Boarding school students can focus better on their studies because television, video games, phones and other distractors are limited. These young scholars usually perform better academically because they live in an environment that is conducive to learning.

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Answer 2

"Away from my family, I didn't only lost the right to live near my loved ones, I lost my right to live as myself.

They want to choose where we can live, putting us into their " land reserves"; Now they want us to live like they do, trying to kill our identity, trying to take away the special knowledge our culture has nourished for so many years, that is within our language, our appearance , our names and our faith.

I might say to them that part of being a "civilized human being" is for the rational thinking of our own cultural values, and it's proper assimilation and possibly cultural exchange , rather than a subversion of another culture. Through harsh and violent ways they try to impose in us a moral quality they don't have. This way we might think who's the closest from being a savage.

No longer we can abide to be diminished as human beings or ever let them touch our culture through the suffering of our people, our children."

This could be a example of a letter from and Indian sent to a boarding school during the 19th and 20th century in the U.S. It is already known that there were various abuses along with the trial of assimilation of the European-American culture on the Indians; It could be made, instead a cultural exchange, if the whites at the time didn't think their culture as superior and civilized.

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