Vocab
Definition of the word prohibited
Not allowed, illegal
Definition of Savage
What is the difference between connotation and Denotation?
Meaning and feeling
This was Cal's friend at the Boarding School in the book
What is Possum
What vegetable was one of the most popular in the diet of Boarding school children?
Potatoes
Things that are alike, the same to one another
Definition of the word Mammoth (adjective)
huge, large in nature
What part of the United States did most of the Native American boarding schools reside?
What is the difference between a 'White man's Handshake' and an 'Indian Handshake'
Indian Handshake has no need for proving one's better
Who was the main developer of Native American Boarding schools?
Who is Henry Richard Pratt.
Definition of the word Deficiency
Not having enough
Definition of scrutinized
Examined/judged harshly and closely/thoroughly
The Merriam Report discussed this
What is conditions in American Indian Boarding Schools.
What Creek word does Cal risk punishment to mutter?
Mu-to
What was the main goal of Native American Boarding Schools?
To Assimilate Native Americans into American culture.
Definition of the word sensation
A difficult to grasp feeling
Intensive pronouns are not necessary to keep the sentence grammatically correct, and add context/understanding
Reflexive are required to make the sentence function
Finish the title of the work:
The Land of the ______ , by Zitkala-Sa
Red Apples
Cherokee Rose, Gun, Bow, Jerky, Gold watch, silver dollar, wing feather, arrowhead
How many (hundreds of) boarding schools were there across America?
What is 500.
Definition of the word unequivocally
In a way that leaves no doubt
Definition of taciturn
(Of a person) saying little; reserved or uncommunicative in speech
What two people did Zitkala-Sa desperately want to visit her in her written work we read for class?
Her brother and her mother
Cal hallucinates this vision with Possum when up in the tree
His ancestors forcibly walking from the south to Arkansas, feet bleeding and scarred
What are three main impacts of boarding schools?
Loss of language/culture, substance abuse, depression, domestic violence, abuse, broken family structure, death, poverty, lateral violence, trouble parenting, etc.