American Indian Boarding Schools - Chart the Evidence
After learning more about Zitkála-Šá and Susan La Flesche Picotte, fill out the chart below using specific evidence from the videos and primary source documents to organize your thoughts about what the evidence reveals about their different perspectives on the boarding school experience and what you think they would believe would be the possible long term impact of assimilation policies.
“He has provided us with schools, schools in which we learn to slough our own red skins… Forget our own languages, forget our parents, and grandparents, and little brothers and little sisters, and our dead ancestors… We must forget our past.” - The Indolent Boys, N. Scott Momaday
