FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
NATIVE AMERICANS
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They wanted everyone to have a chance to go to school.
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They wanted to hire more teachers to work in schools.
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They wanted Native Americans to become more like European Americans.
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They wanted to stop Native Americans from going to schools on reservations.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The goal of these reformers was to use education as a tool to “assimilate” Indian tribes into the mainstream of the “American way of life, ” a Protestant ideology of the mid-19th century.
Detailed explanation-2: -Indian boarding schools were founded to eliminate traditional American Indian ways of life and replace them with mainstream American culture. The first boarding schools were set up starting in the mid-nineteenth century either by the government or Christian missionaries.
Detailed explanation-3: -The purpose of federal Indian boarding schools was to culturally assimilate American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian children by forcibly removing them from their families and Indian Tribes, Alaska Native Villages, and Native Hawaiian Community.