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Off-Reservation Boarding High Schools Teachers: How Are They Perceived By Former American Indian Students?

ISSN: 0362-3319.
Journal from gdlhub / 2012-06-19 11:43:01
Oleh : BEN CHAVIS, STIKOM Dinamika Bangsa Jambi
Dibuat : 2012-06-19, dengan 1 file

Keyword : Off-Reservation Boarding High Schools Teachers: How Are They Perceived By Former American Indian Students?
Subjek : Off-Reservation Boarding High Schools Teachers: How Are They Perceived By Former American Indian Students?
Sumber pengambilan dokumen : KOPERTIS

According to the 1990 census, American Indians represent less than 1% of the U.S.

population (U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1990). Many of them continue to live on reservations;

however, gradually more are appearing in urban areas each decade. In the later

part of the Nineteenth Century, thousands of American Indian children were sent to

off-reservation boarding schools located hundreds or thousands of miles away from

their reservations. There have been numerous publications which suggest this was

done to assimilate American Indian into mainstream society (Szasz, 1978).

Off-reservation boarding schools actually began as an experiment by Lieutenant

Richard Henry Pratt in 1878. Pratt took a group of 17 American Indian adults who

were captured as prisoners of war during the Indian campaigns in the West and taken

to Fort Merian, Florida where they held as captives. After observing their abilities as

craftsmen and artists, Pratt worked to establish a school environment where American

Indians could develop their skills. Shortly thereafter, he recruited another 40 males and

nine female Indian students from the Dakota Territory to attend Hampton Institute.

The success of American Indian students at Hampton Institute encouraged Lieutenant

Pratt to establish a boarding school designed specifically for American Indians and

place it under the Bureau of Indian Affairs (Holm, 1985).

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