Essay On Native American Boarding School

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The beginning of public schooling had three major focuses. Replacing new citizens cultures with our own, teaching people their place in society and educating families how to live and work in the United States. Trying to tell people that what they have been doing for generations is wrong and our new ideas are perfect never goes well. For Native Americans the government wanted to replace their traditions and culture with our own because of course, their ideas and religion were better. With African Americans, schools were to teach them that they need to keep their place in society as laborers and like it. European immigrants that lived in the urban slums had to be taught how to live in a healthier situation so that they would not become corrupt by the haunts of vice and inequity.
The government thought that it was going to make the lives of Native Americans better by replacing their traditions and culture with the ones they brought with them. Colonials thought that their culture was better than the Native American culture and attempted to erase it with their own.
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The colonists decided to redouble their efforts and build some boarding schools. The boarding schools were to focus on specific things in order to bring the Native Americans into the fold. The schools would focus on the English Language and not teach their native language. The boarding schools were going to attempt to transfer the allegiance for the Native Americans from their tribal government to the federal government. In 1889 Alexander Morgan ordered that Native American children attend school so that they could obtain control of them at an early age and strip away their native culture while they were still young. The boarding schools focused on teaching only job skills, fervent patriotism and how to be a good citizen, again, only in