Boarding Schools

Boarding School Effects on Native Americans Today:

Generational Effects with Native Americans.

American Indian History 2

“The effects of Boarding Schools”

The effects of boarding schools that had started in the late 1700’s up to the late 1980’s are still here in today’s generations of native people. The events that the Christian priests and nuns did were horrible such as physical, mental and sexual abuse. The horrible trauma that they did to brainwash students, the extreme work ethic that was done to Native people.

“1909 157 Boarding Schools on Reservations, 307 Day Schools, more than 100,000 native children were forced into these systems.” A phrase of the white man became a popular belief for the Christian people and government “Kill the Indian save the man.” (Conquest pg. 36)

The government went to the extreme to get what they wanted which was the land that Natives occupied. Some of the extremities that the government had done were imprisoning Natives for not sending their children to the boarding schools. Also with creating the man on reservation, boarding schools and off the reservations boarding schools. Boarding schools use to keep natives far from home to keep the white society that they were teaching during the school year. (Conquest pg. 37) Sending many natives to a boarding school was more cost effective then waging war against them which, such as 1,200 for eight years of school to 22 million for war.

There was physical, sexual and mental abuse against many natives in these boarding schools. Many of the sexual abuses that were done in the boarding schools many of them were pushed away, ignored as if it was something acceptable to the world. An example is the Arizona Navajo boarding schools, John Boone had sexually molested 142 boys and nothing was pursued to even put him in jail/prison in the 70’s. (Conquest pg. 38)

Abuse that boarding schools have enforced against young Native American children such as a beating with a whip, fist,...