Forced Schooling—Reeducation
Mastery Objective
Students investigate the relationship between residential schools and Christian missionaries and Native Americans and create a short documentary.
Readings
Day 5
Students investigate the relationship between residential schools and Christian missionaries and Native Americans and create a short documentary.
Readings
- Red Jacket Defends Native American Religion,
- Canada’s Forced Schooling of Aboriginal Children Was ‘Cultural Genocide,’ Report Finds” by Ian Austin, The New York Times, June 2, 2015
- Chapter 6 “Rituals” pgs. 164-173 in David Wallace Adams, Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875-1928. University Press of Kansas, 1995.
- How Boarding Schools Tried to ‘Kill the Indian’ Through Assimilation, from History. Com
- KUED, excellent story about the origins of Native American Boarding Schools along with some short clips.
- Explore the “Rights of Native Americans” timeline from the National Archives exhibit “Record of Rights”
Day 5
- Watch: Students watch “Montana Mosaic: Indian Boarding Schools” from The Montana Experience: Stories from Big Sky Country, 2006