I would like to thank Ms. Hamann for restoring this blog. I have recently experienced major technical difficulties and had all but given up. I appreciate your talent and would like to recognize your tenacity. Truly, these qualities are what make you unique. Graciously, I thank you from the bottom of my heart and look forward to continuing the semester with my peers.
Kara L. Four Bear
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Kara,
ReplyDeleteI was very happy that I was able to assist. I too look forward to the next series of blogs related to Native American boarding schools.
As I read through your outline of the first two chapters I am left to ponder what the children really had in “personal say” of leaving home to attend a boarding school. Were children given the option to stay at home to be educated and the option to leave home to receive an education elsewhere? I would be left to believe that the adults around them, either in close proximity or outside influences, determined what they thought best for that child. I could see that they (family, missionaries, etc.) could have generated the notion that boarding schools were fun to encourage the child to attend.
ReplyDeleteIt is apparent that Superintendent Dunn would have done whatever it would have taken to transform the children within her school into Americans; Americans who thought and behaved in the manner that erased their historical traditions, beliefs, and identity.
Would I be able to do so if (asked) forced?