Question

"Kill the Indian, and Save the Man". Capt. Rihard H.Pratt

Answer 1

- They were severed from their original native culture and fully immersed into mainstream white American culture. A good example of this were the American Indian Boarding Schools that were created on the 19th and 20th centuries. In These boarding schools Native American children would be completely disconnected from their ethnic origins. They were educated in English, were not allowed to speak their native American language and had to give up their native American names and adopt European names.

- Several Supreme Court decisions deprived them of their own agency and independence in thir own affairs. Infantilizing them. United States v. Kagama (1886) ruled that Native Americans were destitute and incapable of protecting themselves and therefore under the total and direct protection and supervision of the US government.