The Carlisle Indian School reflected the negative and positive attitudes of the native and white populations through abuse and civilizing them into what Americans thought was civil. First, the Carlisle Indian School was a massive change for the Indians, and they lived on their land until the whites disturbed them. These whites wanted to assimilate the Indians into the white American culture. However, the way the school told everyone sounded gentle and caring enough for the Indians to agree with it. To illustrate, Richard Henry Pratt, the founder of the Carlisle Indian School, preached about all the good the school would do for the Indians to the people of 1980. Pratt states, "[Indians] have the same inalienable right to liberty and opportunity as the [Whites and Negros] (2)." Pratt is …show more content…
Eventually, they would have rather suffer on the Trail of Tears than go through cultural assimilation. Moreover, this fits with the Carlisle school because cultural assimilation will be held above their heads in every situation. To get further into it, the whites gained positive outcomes from cultural assimilation. In Jackson's speech, he emphasizes that “It enables those states to advance rapidly in population, wealth, and power (2).” In making this comment, Jackson displays how the states that were Indian land gained a lot because of those Indians who refused to be a part of the white culture. Also, those who stayed would help the white economy with their labor as assimilated citizens, and if the Indians had left, it would have given the whites more land. The better the economy, the better the white population will
enacted a policy of assimilation of Native Americans, to Americanize them. Their goal was to turn them into white men. Schools were an important part of facilitating their goal. In 1879, Richard Henry Pratt founded the Carlisle Indian School. It was the first school in which Native American children were culturally exposed to American ideology. The idea for the boarding school first came through treatment of Cheyenne warriors. In the 1860s, Americans were in the midst of a major western migration
Stricken with poverty and living in the heart of Indian territory, he was able to achieve his dreams and then some. These things transferred to his athletics to make his family and the entire Sac and Fox tribes proud. Through hard work, determination, and overcoming many tragedies, Jim Thorpe became the greatest athlete of the 20th century, and his legacy even continues today. Jim Thorpe’s life started like most Indian childrens’ did, in Indian territory. He and his twin brother Charlie were born
identity. Naturally, when you put young children or teenagers with certain kinds of people, they will gradually start picking up habits of the people they are surrounded with. Jim Thorpe was one of those young – adults who were put in the Carlisle Indian School. In this school/ camp, the whites turn Native American children’s lifestyle into theirs. Jim...
would be of more use to “kill the Indian, and save the man” (“Kill”). Between the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, the United States government used boarding schools to try to assimilate Native Americans into modern American culture; however, these plans only alienated these individuals, uprooting and stripping them of their cultural identity and individuality and forcing them into a dependency upon the U.S. The original purpose of Native American boarding schools was to assimilate the members of the