Immigrants And Native Americans After The Civil War

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After the great victory from the Union at the Civil War it seemed as though that would be the end of struggling of the American people. However, that would be the opposite for the Native Americans and immigrants. The Native Americans and immigrants faced problems of assimilating to the American culture. The Native Americans after the Civil War faced the problems of being kicked out of their land having to assimilate into the American culture. The Native Americans were seen as “savages” because of that the American government wanted to civilize them. The government set up schools in the 1860s for Indian children to attend. The goal was for the children “to civilize their parents, as well, by sharing what they were learning” however, this ultimately failed. …show more content…

This failed because the family would move closer to the schools. However, an attempt by Richard Henry Pratt in 1875 would be successful. Pratt would teach seventy two Indian prisoners and have sixty two of them attended a university. Later in 1879 Pratt would have permission to send “60 young boys and 24 girls to a new boarding school” this boarding school was 1,500 miles away from their home. Pratt did this to ensure that the children would forget their culture. In the school the boys would have their long hair cut which was the pride of the Indians. There at the school they would not be allowed to speak their native language and had most of tribal clothes replaced with western clothes. The most important

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