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1. When and how did boarding schools emerge? What was the purpose of federally implemented boarding schools? What did Native families do to resist boarding schools? What are the lasting effects on generations of boarding school survivors?
2. What was the role of the Spanish missions in California? How did Indigenous peoples resist? How are the missions talked about in California public schools, and why might there be problems with the way the subject is taught? How might the subject matter be taught more appropriately?
3. What is the significance of both the 1969 Occupation of Alcatraz and the Wounded Knee Occupation in 1973? Describe both occupations and each of their historical roots. What are the occupations; lasting impacts for modern American Indian people?
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Running head: EMERGING OF BOARDING SCHOOLS
Emerging of Boarding Schools
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Answer 1
In the 1870s, the federal government initialized sending American Indians to offreservation schools, as Indians were still in conflict with the United States. Christian
missionaries of distinct denominations first established these reservation schools. In the 19th
century, the government gave religious groups orders to offer fundamental education to Native
American Children on reservations (Aziz, 2019). These schools would later be identified as
boarding schools. As far as this is concerned, it is proper to note that the federally implemented
schools were started with the sole objective of assimilating Native American cultures and also
offering essential education in Europe-American subject matters. However, Indians were against
boarding schools as parents denied giving their children to government officials and making
them play 'hide and seek' games to evade being taken to schools by government agents. Again,
during the vacation events, the Indian elders and other members took time enculturating their
youth in th...
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