Thursday, June 12, 2008

boarding school

From what I read it seems as thought the native people could not escape the Europeans because every where they turned the Europeans were there. It was sad to read about how the natives were stripped of their religion and force to basically be another race. It stated in the book that they were forced Christianity onto them and there children where forced to be shipped off to boarding schools. In the chapter it stated that there were 25 boarding schools off the reservation and 157 on the reservation. There were no possibilities for the natives to escape anywhere with those circumstances and on top of that those who did not let their kids go to these boarding schools were killed. I thought it was unfair and cruel of the B.I.A to let some of the native kids get sexually assaulted and not report it. It was even sickening to read that when Terry Hoster (a sex offender) applied at one of the boarding schools after being arrested for sexual assault, he was still hired. The native people basically went threw hell and the sad part is that they went through it for nothing.

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