This was a act of genocide because they wanted to convert one religion to another one. They forced the native american to leave their culture for another one.
These boarding schools were an act of genocide. Children were taking from their parents sides and arms and also from their homes. The residential school experience had left thousands of Aboriginal people with emotional and physical scars. The purpose of the schools, which separated children from their families, has also been described as cultural genocide or "killing the Indian in the child."
I believe that boarding schools were an act of genocide.In the boarding schools they tryed to assimilate the Indian children in lots of different ways. All to get them to live in a white society. It created a large amount of orphan Indian children because they were removed from their family's.
I find the boarding schools to be an act of genocide because genocide is an act with the intent to destroy a national, ethnical, racial or religious group in comparison to ac act against humanity. The purpose of the boarding schools was to eradicate their heritage, to destroy the way of their life.
I think that these boarding schools were an act of genocide. The children were taken from their homes, and they were pretty much forced to change their cultural ways. There was also, physical, sexual, and mental abuse occurring at each school.
The act of native american boarding schools also known as the Americanization of Native Americans was an act of genocide because they were destroying their families, and cultures and providing a rough future for native american children.
Even though they were not actually trying to kill Native Americans I still think the boarding schools were an act of genocide. They were trying to get rid of there culture because it was different and they did not like that. Culture is your beliefs and taking that away takes you away. It changes who you are. In some of the sources I found when kids went home or saw there family again they were no longer the same. They could not communicate with them anymore or understand each other.
I think that this is an act of genocide because the children are getting taken away from their family's, their friends, and homes to go to a boarding school. Their religion is forced to change when they don't want or need to change.
I am pretty sure genocide is setting out with the intent to get rid of an entire group. Whether for their culture, where their from, or what they look like. Maggie do you mean Native Americans?
I agree it might have helped them "exist in a white community" but we took away their heritage, kind of by force. Therefore, I disagree and say it is an act of genocide.
They could have had a life in America without us stripping them of their heritage. Yes, it might have been harder living here since there was a lot of racist issues then, and still now, but it would have been possible.
This was a act of genocide because they wanted to convert one religion to another one. They forced the native american to leave their culture for another one.
ReplyDeleteThese boarding schools were an act of genocide. Children were taking from their parents sides and arms and also from their homes.
ReplyDeleteThe residential school experience had left thousands of Aboriginal people with emotional and physical scars. The purpose of the schools, which separated children from their families, has also been described as cultural genocide or "killing the Indian in the child."
A Lot of people have been saying it is an act of genocide but the Indians were abused, why would it not be a crime against humanity
DeleteYes and in this cass they were trying to turn the children into us by bacily brain washing them of what they knew.
DeleteI believe that boarding schools were an act of genocide.In the boarding schools they tryed to assimilate the Indian children in lots of different ways. All to get them to live in a white society. It created a large amount of orphan Indian children because they were removed from their family's.
ReplyDeleteDo you think they ever thought about the way they were abusing Indians or were they always thinking about the expansion to Indian territories.
DeleteI think the did not have a thought about the way they were abusing Indians they just wanted them to "fit in" to socity.
DeleteI find the boarding schools to be an act of genocide because genocide is an act with the intent to destroy a national, ethnical, racial or religious group in comparison to ac act against humanity. The purpose of the boarding schools was to eradicate their heritage, to destroy the way of their life.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you on this. Do you remember the reading we did on the Indian genocide we read about in class before this movie?
DeleteI think that these boarding schools were an act of genocide. The children were taken from their homes, and they were pretty much forced to change their cultural ways. There was also, physical, sexual, and mental abuse occurring at each school.
ReplyDeleteYou should look at the definition of genocide again.
ReplyDeleteThe act of native american boarding schools also known as the Americanization of Native Americans was an act of genocide because they were destroying their families, and cultures and providing a rough future for native american children.
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americanization_of_Native_Americans
http://content.lib.washington.edu/aipnw/marr.html
www.kumeyaay.info/history/History_Indian_Boarding_Schools.pdf
Destroying families is a good point. Do you think they were really trying to provide a rough future for the Native Americans children?
DeleteEven though they were not actually trying to kill Native Americans I still think the boarding schools were an act of genocide. They were trying to get rid of there culture because it was different and they did not like that. Culture is your beliefs and taking that away takes you away. It changes who you are. In some of the sources I found when kids went home or saw there family again they were no longer the same. They could not communicate with them anymore or understand each other.
ReplyDeleteI think that this is an act of genocide because the children are getting taken away from their family's, their friends, and homes to go to a boarding school. Their religion is forced to change when they don't want or need to change.
ReplyDeleteBut by teaching them to fit into a white community meant they had to change how they acted losing some of their culture.
ReplyDeleteThey also did not really have the choice about attending them.
ReplyDeleteI am pretty sure genocide is setting out with the intent to get rid of an entire group. Whether for their culture, where their from, or what they look like.
ReplyDeleteMaggie do you mean Native Americans?
I agree it might have helped them "exist in a white community" but we took away their heritage, kind of by force. Therefore, I disagree and say it is an act of genocide.
ReplyDeleteThey could have had a life in America without us stripping them of their heritage. Yes, it might have been harder living here since there was a lot of racist issues then, and still now, but it would have been possible.
ReplyDeleteyes I think it was an act of genocide as well because we tryed to make them like us.
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