Essay On Native American Education

All over the world, people have always sought for power, they have struggled to defend their culture; they have worked beyond imaginable to obtain economic prosperity and political freedom. A matter of fact equality is something that nowadays we are still fighting to obtain. Education has always been the key to power. In the twenty-first century education means a way to obtain the American dream, in other words, to achieve success. However, schools were never intended to empower people to think for themselves or to help them succeed. At the beginning of the American school, different groups of people wanted different things to come out of schooling, one of those things was to facilitate reading the bible in the text it states that “Schooling became important as a means of sustaining a well- ordered religious commonwealth” (Spring 22). Education has been very important because those who were educated were viewed

There is no better example than the relationship between the Native Americans and the English colonies. The English colonist came using their power to impose their religion, culture, and tradition, to the Native Americans. However, the Native Americans didn’t give in easily and many didn’t give in at all. One of the many things the colonies did was to create schools for the Native American children. There the children were forced to dress, act like the colonist. They were forced to only speak English and if they were caught not speaking English they were punished. Thinking about it from the colonist point of view it was a smart move because they knew that the younger the children the easier they are to convert them into their religion, traditions, and culture. However, many adults were also forced to learn to read so they could be part of the religion brought in by the English