One article which was a story on a girl who blamed her father for the divorce of her parents, the other was about pregnant teenagers of Hazelwood East High School sharing the experiences they encountered in the school. In order to keep the girls privacy the editors changed their names. Before the article could be published they were removed by the Principal who felt they were inappropriate. The Principal felt that
All this was also an apparent attempt to civilize the Native Americans. The Dawes Act provided for a civilized channel of education for Native American children in government schools. This was so stringent that the troops took children away if there was resistance from parents. Moreover, boarding was preferred to ensure that the children get away from the tribal influence. According to Dawes Act, the churches were to intervene in policy making and missionary work related to the Native Americans and near the tribes.
Drawing from research conducted at the various children’s homes where Anna was housed after her isolation, Davis investigates and elaborates on how Anna quickly began to manifest a slower than normal rate of social development. However, Davis also explained how interpreting Anna’s scores on what were standardized tests could be misleading, given the fact that the child was brought up under very unusual circumstances. Just before Anna’s death at the age of ten, her condition was examined again and the results were very promising. She had learned to conform to group socialization, developed toilet and eating habits and had even begun to develop speech. These findings led Davis to wonder whether Anna had an inferior capacity for social development or whether her isolation had simply not allowed her to realize her social
“Civilize Them with a Stick” Mary Crow Dog is a Native American writer who captured her struggles as a student at a boarding school run by Bureau of Indian Affairs. A traditional education at mission school St. Francis became a challenge for the children of an Indian culture. The attitudes towards Native Americans were not held to that of the middle-class white students. Punishments were severe following the Church orders by extreme methods. Two sisters experienced this struggle at separate stages, which has been experienced by their mothers,’ mother.
Judy Harris Ashley Goulder English 112 27 March 2013 Civilize Them With A Stick Young Indian children faced many issues of abuse in mission schools according to the author Mary Crow Dog in an attempt to assimilate them into the white man’s society. She talked about going to a mission school called St. Francis as a young girl to be educated. The day started at five a.m. for her and the other children. It began with prayer, breakfast, chores and then study. If the children were spotted not praying properly or chatting while doing chores, they would get swats.
During her early teens she was forced to go to boarding school not only by her mothers will but by state law all Indian children were forced away from their parents and sent to Christian boarding schools to acculturate these children through these cultural modification policies, (Bodley, 1999, p. 93). Despite the aims of the laws passed to send Indian children to Christian boarding schools, this actually caused resistance in many cases, as is the case with Mary Crow Dog. The pressures and punishments delivered by these Christian caregivers exacerbated the situation which pushed her to embrace her Indian roots and learn her peoples culture, language and
The land was the home of the natives; it was explored and well known. The history Americans are taught all through grade school and even in college is biased. White people have told their story how they want it to be heard, making themselves out to be the heroes who conquered the native savages. Ortiz states the problem about our history being inaccurate, offers many examples of inaccuracies and inconsistencies between the
Leave Us Alone By: Denise Meza Vine Deloria takes a new approach at addressing issues that Native Americans have had to face for several years. In Deloria’s “Custer die for your sins: An Indian Manifesto” a general concept of “leaves us alone” is addressed. Circe Strum agrees with his general argument but her study of identity in “Blood Politics: Race, Culture and Identity in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma” reveals contradictions. Vine Deloria is known to be the first to write an overview of Indians and be successful in doing so. In Custer Die for your sins Deloria attempts to cover several different issues that the Indians have encountered and continue encounter due to ignorance.
HW6: Hirsch summary In the reading “Creating a Curriculum for the American People” by E.D Hirsch, Jr. emphases on his belief that America’s biggest educational problems can be separated in to three categories. First is our low academic achievement relative to other nations; second is our lack of equality of educational opportunity; third our failure to perpetuate a strong sense of loyalty to the national community and its civic institutions. In the excerpt, he lays out his case that a shared base of common knowledge is essential not just reading and comprehension but the functioning of democracy itself. Hirsch describes how the anti-curriculum movement, the dominant school of thought in education became “tragically and unintentionally” an anti-equality movement. A lack of knowledge, both civic and wide-ranging, is the most significant deficit in most American students’ education.
There is a high drop out rate in treatment centers. So if there is no prosecution in site then still what is there to keep these women in treatment and keep the children safe? There can be threat and follow through with removing custody rights but at that point the damage has been done to the fetus and the state has a new drug addicted baby with birth defects. Incarceration for drug abusing pregnant women 5