Indian Boarding School Webquest
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Native American Boarding Schools: Webquest
Part I.
Assimilation Through Education: Indian Boarding Schools in the Pacific Northwest
http://content.lib.washington.edu/aipnw/marr.html
Go to the website, read the text, and answer the questions.
1. What was the goal of Indian education in the late 19th century?
2. What principle did Capt. Richard Henry Pratt subscribe to?
Go to Part 4: A Typical Daily Schedule
3. What did the American government feel was the foremost requirement for assimilation into American society?
4. Were Native Americans allowed to speak their native language?
5. What was another important component for "civilizing" the Indians?
6. What might happen to parents if they did not send their children to Indian schools?
Go to Part 5: Negatives and Positives
7. What kind of punishment did “runaways” receive?
8. What was the most feared disease at the boarding schools?
9. What positive experiences did Native Americans have at the boarding schools?
Part II.
American Indian Boarding Schools Haunt Many
Go to http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16516865
Go to the website, read the text, and answer the questions.
10. As a child why did Indian activist Floyd Red Crow Westerman initially think he was on the bus to go to the Wahpeton Indian Boarding School in North Dakota?
11. What did the matrons at the Stewart Indian School in Nevada do to Bill Wright, a Pattwin Indian, when he went to the scool?
12. Describe the conversation Bill Wright had with his grandmother when he came home from school.
13. According to Tsianina Lomawaima, head of the American Indian Studies program at the University of Arizona, what was the government’s objective in founding these boarding schools?
14. According to Lomawaima, why did the government specifically target Native nations that were the most recently hostile?
15. Describe the discipline and punishment found at many Indian boarding schools.
Part III.
Indian Country Diaries
Go to http://www.pbs.org/indiancountry/history/interactive_map.html
Go to the website, read the text, and answer the questions.
Click on Indian Boarding Schools.
16. Describe the system of “day schools” that were set up prior to boarding schools.
17. How did Lone Wolf of the Blackfoot tribe remember his experiences at the Carlisle School?
18. How did Ojibwe student Merta Bercier feel about being an Indian after her schooling?
19. Approximately how many Indians were forced to attend U.S. government schools?
20. Despite the negative aspects of boarding schools, what are two positives that came out of the experience?
Part IV.
Click on the Interactive Map Link on the left side of the page.
Click on Native Californians Tab.
Click through the Historic tribes, Mission Locations, and Present Tribes to see the location of historic and present-day Native American tribes.
21. Read the Native Californians text and provide a summary.
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Click the Cherokee Relocation Tab and then the View the Trail of Tears button.
22. Read the Cherokee Relocation text and provide a summary.
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Click the Boarding Schools Tab and then the Boarding Schools Locations button.
23. Read the Boarding Schools text and provide a summary.
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Click the Urban Relocation Tab and then the Urban Relocation Centers button.
24. Read the Urban Relocation text and provide a summary.
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Click the Today Tab.
25. Read the Today text and provide a summary.
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Native American Boarding Schools: Webquest
Part I.
Assimilation Through Education: Indian Boarding Schools in the Pacific Northwest
http://content.lib.washington.edu/aipnw/marr.html
Go to the website, read the text, and answer the questions.
1. What was the goal of Indian education in the late 19th century?
2. What principle did Capt. Richard Henry Pratt subscribe to?
Go to Part 4: A Typical Daily Schedule
3. What did the American government feel was the foremost requirement for assimilation into American society?
4. Were Native Americans allowed to speak their native language?
5. What was another important component for "civilizing" the Indians?
6. What might happen to parents if they did not send their children to Indian schools?
Go to Part 5: Negatives and Positives
7. What kind of punishment did “runaways” receive?
8. What was the most feared disease at the boarding schools?
9. What positive experiences did Native Americans have at the boarding schools?
Part II.
American Indian Boarding Schools Haunt Many
Go to http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16516865
Go to the website, read the text, and answer the questions.
10. As a child why did Indian activist Floyd Red Crow Westerman initially think he was on the bus to go to the Wahpeton Indian Boarding School in North Dakota?
11. What did the matrons at the Stewart Indian School in Nevada do to Bill Wright, a Pattwin Indian, when he went to the scool?
12. Describe the conversation Bill Wright had with his grandmother when he came home from school.
13. According to Tsianina Lomawaima, head of the American Indian Studies program at the University of Arizona, what was the government’s objective in founding these boarding schools?
14. According to Lomawaima, why did the government specifically target Native nations that were the most recently hostile?
15. Describe the discipline and punishment found at many Indian boarding schools.
Part III.
Indian Country Diaries
Go to http://www.pbs.org/indiancountry/history/interactive_map.html
Go to the website, read the text, and answer the questions.
Click on Indian Boarding Schools.
16. Describe the system of “day schools” that were set up prior to boarding schools.
17. How did Lone Wolf of the Blackfoot tribe remember his experiences at the Carlisle School?
18. How did Ojibwe student Merta Bercier feel about being an Indian after her schooling?
19. Approximately how many Indians were forced to attend U.S. government schools?
20. Despite the negative aspects of boarding schools, what are two positives that came out of the experience?
Part IV.
Click on the Interactive Map Link on the left side of the page.
Click on Native Californians Tab.
Click through the Historic tribes, Mission Locations, and Present Tribes to see the location of historic and present-day Native American tribes.
21. Read the Native Californians text and provide a summary.
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Click the Cherokee Relocation Tab and then the View the Trail of Tears button.
22. Read the Cherokee Relocation text and provide a summary.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Click the Boarding Schools Tab and then the Boarding Schools Locations button.
23. Read the Boarding Schools text and provide a summary.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Click the Urban Relocation Tab and then the Urban Relocation Centers button.
24. Read the Urban Relocation text and provide a summary.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Click the Today Tab.
25. Read the Today text and provide a summary.
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