Talk:Americanization (of Native Americans)

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[edit] Non-reservation schools

This section needs lots of work, Carlisle Indian School is only one small example. Historically (even currently) there are all kinds of non-reservation boarding schools. There is that hardly obscure Ivy League college which started as an "indian school" around 1770. There are all kinds of what I would call christian missionary schools (as diverse as Roman Catholic and Church of Latter Day Saints), and "do-gooder" projects. All had their own notions on the whys and hows to "educate" children away from their parents or orginal culture.

• Bennet Law in WI
  • Tomah Indian Industrial School WI
• The Phoenix Indian School
• Short personal experiences boarding schools
• Nance OK boarding school Federal
• daily schedule and sad picture gallery This site alone lists:
  • Tulalip Indian School, ca. 1912. WA
  • Chemawa Indian School aka Forest Grove, Oregon. 1901.

• • St. Mary's Mission School in Omak, Washington. (maybe reservation school)
  • Phoenix Indian School AZ
  • Carlisle Indian School PA
• More pictures of boarding schools
  • Albuquerque Indian School NM

C**arson/Stewart Indian School Nevada, 1890-1962.

• • Mission School in Sitka AK
• Sherman School CA now Indian Cultural Museum
  • Perris Indian School was established in 1892 CA
• ASU.edu's Boarding School links
  • Santa Fe Indian School, 1890-1918
  • Ft. Lewis Boarding School, Colorado 1891-1911
  • Has Catholic microfilm index of Indian Schools records

Above from a brief search on line. --Rcollman 14:09, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] To be added

• Official relocation programs to get Native Americans off reservations and into cities such as Denver, Minneapolis, Cleveland, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and others.
• Americanization in Native American music (i.e. in 49 songs, which often have lyrics in English). Badagnani 08:51, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Also to be added:

• Child adoption policies in the 20th century (until the 1960s) that forcibly took 100,000 Native American children from their birth families into adoption by white European foster parents, in order to "civilize" young Native Americans if they were raised by white Europeans instead of their own tribal customs and traditions. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.102.53.48 (talk) 19:36, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Culture Genocide?

Does this qualify to be culture genocide? Speaker1978 (talk) 18:35, 3 June 2008 (UTC)