"<em>Away from my family, I didn't only lost the right to live near my loved ones, I lost my right to live as myself.</em>
<em> They want to choose where we can live, putting us into their " land reserves"; Now they want us to live like they do, trying to kill our identity, trying to take away the special knowledge our culture has nourished for so many years, that is within our language, our appearance , our names and our faith. </em>
<em> I might say to them that part of being a "civilized human being" is for the rational thinking of our own cultural values, and it's proper assimilation and possibly cultural exchange , rather than a subversion of another culture. Through harsh and violent ways they try to impose in us a moral quality they don't have. This way we might think who's the closest from being a savage.</em>
<em> No longer we can abide to be diminished as human beings or ever let them touch our culture through the suffering of our people, our children."</em>
This could be a example of a letter from and Indian sent to a boarding school during the 19th and 20th century in the U.S. It is already known that there were various abuses along with the trial of assimilation of the European-American culture on the Indians; It could be made, instead a cultural exchange, if the whites at the time didn't think their culture as superior and civilized.
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