Native American Boarding schools

What was the true purpose of the Indian Boarding Schools?

• The teach Native Americans how to farm and work in a factory

• To "civilize" Native Americans

• To give willing Native Americans a chance to learn English

• To teach Native Americans how to preserve their cultural heritage

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In 1887 the Americans sent many Indian children in boarding schools away from their mothers in order to ...

• teach them English

• make them Christians

• cut them off their customs and language

• all of the above

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Indian children in boarding schools ...

• had to wear uniforms and keep their hair short

• enjoyed their education and life there

• could keep their Indian names

• could see their families very often

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Dehumanization means....

• highlighting the positive qualities of a group of people

• depriving a group or person of positive human qualities

• to aid a group of people by giving them resources

Each tribe had it's own traditions, language, and religion.

• True

• False

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Native Americans lived here peacefully until around the 1400's.

• True

• False

What is one of the main reasons reformers wanted to send Native Americans to boarding schools?

• They wanted everyone to have a chance to go to school.

• They wanted to hire more teachers to work in schools.

• They wanted Native Americans to become more like European Americans.

• They wanted to stop Native Americans from going to schools on reservations.

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Which of these things is traditional in Native American tribes?

• wearing braids

• taking trains

• speaking English

• writing stories

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What is the most likely reason that Native Americans at day schools would go home and "try to forget about the new customs and rules they had been taught"? (p.66)

• They found the customs and rules hard to remember.

• They hoped that by learning slowly they could stay in school longer.

• They wanted to make their teachers angry.

• They wanted to keep the customs and rules they had grown up with.

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Many White Americans didn't understand Native American culture, so they sent the children to.....

• concentration camps

• to be slaves

• boarding schools