Blog 2

http://www.pbs.org/indiancountry/history/boarding.html


  The article that I picked for blog 2 is about Native American assimilation schools. The article explains how after the Civil War the U.S. had more troops to take over the natives but did not want to kill them all. Reformers of the U.S. decided to take away the heritage of the natives and teach them the ways of the whites which meant stripping them of their language as well as way of life. Assimilation boarding schools were set up where young natives would go to and live there for a long period until they forgot their own language and only knew English.

  I picked this article because I feel like this kind of movement still exists in today's society. There are laws in schools right now that forbid students to speak in their native languages. It is related to language because it is about people losing their language and having English forced upon them. I thought it was interesting how the article seemed to be biased in the way that they seemed to think it was not a horrible event. I strongly disagree with what happened to the Natives. They were treated unfairly and had no choice in the matter. The article does make me want to learn about the topic so that I can compare it to what is happening currently in the world. This is a topic that is always affecting the world because there are many groups that take over another group and force their language and their ways on the weaker group.