Boarding Schools
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What was boarding school's motto?
What is "Kill the Indian and save the man"
100
What does BSHP wish to accomplish?
To document abuses so Native communities can begin healing from boarding school abuse and demand justice from U.S. Government.
100
From the native peoples' perspectives, why did they think it is unreasonable for African Americans to petition for U.S land?
Because the U.S. has no land to give.
100
Who founded the first off reservation boarding school Carlisle?
What is Richard Pratt
100
What percentage of Native children in Alaska are in foster care?
60%
200
Why did the government choose children only and not adults?
Adults were too set in their ways to change
200
What are the four components of the Boarding School Healing Project?
Healing, Education, Documentation, and Accountability
200
What does reparation mean?
The making of amends for injury done
200
Who is Cindy Sohappy?
She was found dead in a holding cell after being punished for being intoxicated. Staff failed to check on her every 15 minutes. :(
200
Why were Native families were seen as “neglectful” resulting in having their children taken away?
Because their way of living was different from the dominate society’s norm
300
What is the name of the first off reservation boarding school in 1879?
What is Carlisle Indian School
300
The Indian Child Protection Act of 1990 was passed to provide mandated reporting system, rigid guidelines for doing background checks, and education to parents, school staff and law enforcement on how to recognize sexual abuse? Why was this unsuccessful?
The law was never sufficiently funded or implemented.
300
In 1946 the U.S government established what claim?
Indian Claims Commission.
300
Who is Terry Hester?
This man admitted that he had been convicted of child abuse on his application but was still hired at Kaibito Boarding School on the Navajo Reservation.
300
Why were Native girls trained to become middle-class housewives? (ironing, sewing, washing, serving raw oysters, flower arrangements, etc.)
To take away Native women’s importance and leadership in their Native communities. They are forced into patriarchal norms
400
Jesuit Priest started developing schools for Indian children along what river in the 17th century?
What is the St. Lawrence River
400
Most of off reservation boarding schools were closed down around 1935 when Commission Collier started the era of Indian reform which was known as?
"Indian Reorganization"
400
What was the primary goal of the ICC (Indian claims commission)?
To settle land claims by providing financial compensation
400
Who is John Boone?
He was a teacher at Hopi Day School in Arizona. He sexually abused at least 142 boys which the school wouldn't investigate
400
In 1869 Grant's Peace Policy turned Indian Reservations over to?
Church denominations
500
Why were boarding schools chosen over a war against Indians?
It cost less to "educate" 30,000 children a year because a war would cost $22 million.
500
In 1978 Congress pass the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) what did this mean?
Act allowed tribes to decide where their children would be placed when taken from their home
500
"Welcome to the Republic of New Afrika" was a greeting the Cherokee were not pleased by in a meeting in which city?
Atlanta, GA (the ancestral land of the Cherokee tribe)
500
Who is Tim Giago?
A Native journalist that wrote a book of poetry about his nine year abuse that he encountered at Red Cloud Indian School. Later priests erased records and denying that he had ever attended the school.
500
The issues of boarding schools abuse forces you to see the connection between state violence and what?
Interpersonal violence
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