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BIA's Impact on Indian Education Is an Education in Bad Education

Seeded on Mon Jan 30, 2012 11:20 AM EST
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A very well written article on ''Indian Boarding Schools'' and their destruction of generations of Native children. In Canada they were called ''Residential Schools'' with the same mission and result to Native children.

These ''schools'' existed until the 1980's.

There have been many reports on the abuse that occurred in these ''schools''...Amnesty International published a report that went into detail on what occured in these schools. Everything from sexual abuse, torture, slave labor and murder.

A long and sad history of ''assimilation'' of Native Americans.

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Kavika

The results of the policy of asimilation of Natives by the U.S. Government.

  • 3 votes
Reply#1 - Mon Jan 30, 2012 11:21 AM EST
screminmimi

The only thing I can say is this is one government agency that definitely should be dissolved. No one is ever going to make it accountable for its atrocities.... just do away with it NOW!

It is racist, bigoted, and an affront to Native Americans to still have such an agency in the U.S. government. Can you imagine the outrage if all affairs, including controlling interest in monetary matters, were in the hands of a Bureau of Black Affairs?

  • 1 vote
#1.1 - Mon Jan 30, 2012 12:27 PM EST
Kavika

I'm in total agreement mimi. They have destroyed generations of native children, lost or misplaced billions of dollars belonging to Native, and at best they are corrupt, incompetent, crooks and useless.

Waanakiwin niijii

  • 2 votes
#1.2 - Mon Jan 30, 2012 1:17 PM EST
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grump in NM

The Navajos in NM and Arizona were also placed in these schools. I am so happy that kids are able to go to school locally and be where they belong with their family. If you are a kid and you don't have your family you have almost nothing.

  • 1 vote
Reply#2 - Mon Jan 30, 2012 12:26 PM EST
Kavika

Thanks for visiting grump. Yes the Navajo, Hopi, Zuni and most southwest tribes were forced into these schools. A sad reminder of the horrors that they faced.

Waanakiwin niijii

  • 1 vote
#2.1 - Mon Jan 30, 2012 1:19 PM EST
grump in NM

My neighbor is NA from Laguna Pueblo. He works for the BIA. He does not have one NA friend that I know of. None ever visit him at his house. I always thought that was really strange.

  • 1 vote
#2.2 - Mon Jan 30, 2012 1:41 PM EST
Kavika

''He works for the BIA'' there's your answer grump.

    #2.3 - Mon Jan 30, 2012 3:05 PM EST
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    Enoch-2699399

    Time to put te BIA in history books only as a role model for how not to effectively govern.

    Time to reinvigorate the culture of all Native Americans.

    We cannot turn back the clock. We can move forward to restore a great, priceless national treasure. That being the wisdom of all Native Americans cultures, languages, and lifestyles.

    Enoch.

    • 3 votes
    Reply#3 - Mon Jan 30, 2012 1:59 PM EST
    Kavika

    Thank you niijii,

    ''We can move forward to restore a great, priceless national treasure''...I'm hopeful that we will.

    Waanakiwin niijii

      #3.1 - Mon Jan 30, 2012 3:06 PM EST
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      tzia62

      We need a change ASAP !

      • 2 votes
      Reply#4 - Mon Jan 30, 2012 2:21 PM EST
      Kavika

      We sure tzia, a goverment agency that has been dedicated to destroying NA's should have long ago been shut down.

      Waanakiwin niijii

        #4.1 - Mon Jan 30, 2012 3:50 PM EST
        ivorybill

        We are all quilty, including the indian. Frankly; if I was born Native American Indian, I would hope, suspect, that I would have fought to the death before allowing these ignorant savages from across the ocean to bring their ideas of delusional metamorphosis, their enlightened wisdoms of prosterity and posterity to my innocence, for sure!Nothing wrong with technology, science, and progress. Not at all,....But greed should have changed into some ugly colored butterfly and flown out of our lifes forever.

          #4.2 - Mon Jan 30, 2012 4:42 PM EST
          Kavika

          ivorybill, thanks for visiting. Many NA's over the centuries fought to the death for their rights.

          • 1 vote
          #4.3 - Mon Jan 30, 2012 4:51 PM EST
          ivorybill

          I know......too bad they did not win, or change the attitudes of white ignorances. Alot of people have sacrificed...life/limb over this globe we all possess from the beginnings of man/woman kind. Shame we have not ascended as well in that process, the process of understanding and veneration for all life, as we do in progress, this so called prosperity we embrace for guidance. And I add.................Thanks for the article!!!

            #4.4 - Mon Jan 30, 2012 5:03 PM EST
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            McSpocky

            Pratt’s strategy was straightforward: take children away from their parents and reprogram them under the auspices of the government. Natives who attended this type of school endured daily punishment for speaking, writing or even acting in an Indian fashion. The typical day for a boarding school student was spent learning in the morning and the second half of the day was doing manual labor, which would help them once they finished school.

            The goal of schools like Carlisle, Hampton Institute and the Phoenix Indian School was to make Natives dress, speak and act like whites. According to Peter Farb in his book, Man’s Rise to Civilization: The Cultural Ascent of the Indians of North America, “The children usually were kept at boarding school for eight years, during which time they were not permitted to see their parents, relatives, or friends. Anything Indian­—dress, language, religious practices, even outlook on life…was uncompromisingly prohibited.”

            Some administrators at these schools had little training in education and many were former military officers, in part because the BIA felt military rules were best-suited for the task at hand. The Meriam Report uncovered many abuses—many students died while attending the schools, and many more were mistreated. Some of those deaths were related from overcrowding, in other cases it was lack of food. According to the report, “The boarding schools are crowded materially beyond their capacity.… The toilet facilities have in many cases not been increased proportionately to the increase in pupils, and they are fairly frequently not properly maintained or conveniently located.”

            There is one more bill that had a huge and positive impact on Indian sovereignty and the quality of education for young Natives, but its impact was indirect. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was very important for Natives because it ended segregation of public schools. While most Natives were granted full civil rights in 1924 and Natives had already been admitted to white schools, it was the political turmoil of the 1960s that had lasting effects. More and more Natives wanted to make sure they were heard in the political debate. Just as blacks were becoming more militant, Natives believed great activism would help them, and in 1972 activists briefly occupied the Washington, D.C. headquarters of the BIA. This era was the starting point for new tactics that helped end Indian termination policy.

            The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is what Ron Paul thinks should never have been passed. :(

            While tribes have taken on much more responsibility in the educating of their youth, they still have to deal with the BIA for funding and grant requests. It has only been in the past 40 years that the focus has shifted from what the government wants to what the Native community wants and needs. Since the role of the BIA continues to be a major factor regardless of mismanagement and corruption issues, Natives will have to work with them until true self-determination is achieved.

            What an informative seed, Kavika. I learned more things that is didn't know about...thank you for sharing this with us.

            • 2 votes
            Reply#5 - Tue Jan 31, 2012 10:57 PM EST
            Kavika

            Thanks for visiting McSpocky, I thought that you might enjoy the article. Happy that you did.

            Really a sad history for NA's, as for Ron Paul, he is really out of touch with reality.

            Waanakiwin niijii

            • 2 votes
            #5.1 - Wed Feb 1, 2012 1:17 AM EST
            McSpocky

            I think it is something my sister will like as well... I'm going to print out a copy of it for her, since she's not online.

            • 2 votes
            #5.2 - Wed Feb 1, 2012 2:03 AM EST
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