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Period 4, Day 9: Indian Boarding Schools - A Path Towards Healing

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Content Objective: I will be able to determine the true purpose of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School based on the experience of a former student.

Standard Objective: I will be able to cite the textual evidence that best supports a given claim or point.
Content Objective: I will be able to determine the true purpose of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School based on the experience of a former student.

Standard Objective: I will be able to cite the textual evidence that best supports a given claim or point.
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Warm Up: Please rate how well you understood last night's pre-work on a scale from 1 to 4. If you have any questions, drop them in the "Show Your Work" area.

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Warm Up: What is one tradition or language that you practice at home? Please explain.

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Warm Up: One interesting historical fact I learned from the pre-work is…

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Building Knowledge Together: Let's make sure we're all on the same page!

Yesterday, we learned about the _______ Indian Industrial Boarding School and its founder, Richard H. _______ . While the Carlisle school was the first of the Indian boarding schools, it would not be the last. Between 1869 and the 1960s, hundreds of thousands of Native American children were removed from their homes and families and placed in boarding schools operated by the federal government and the churches. Though we don't know how many children were taken in total, by 1900 there were _______ children in Indian boarding schools, and by 1925 that number had more than _______ .

According to Tsianina Lomawaima, head of the American Indian Studies program at the University of Arizona, some Native American children were taken forcibly, by armed police, but that’s not the only reason why families let their children go to Indian boarding schools.
"For many communities, for a variety of reasons, federal school was the only option," she says. "Public schools were closed to Indians because of racism." At boarding schools, the curriculum focused mostly on _______ , such as carpentry for boys and housekeeping for girls, rather than math, English, or history.
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Compare and contrast the two student portraits from an Indian boarding school.

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Thomas Moore's true name is unknown.

Why do you think Native American children were given English names?

Applying Knowledge: Well done! Let’s now take a critical look at a historical document from the time period.
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Who was Luther Standing Bear? Why should we consider his account in our study of Indian boarding schools?

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What were some of the changes the Carlisle teachers forced Luther Standing Bear and his fellow students to make?

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Based on this document, what was the purpose of the Carlisle School? How does this purpose compare to the one described by Pratt in our last session?

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Exit Ticket: Indian boarding schools were founded over a hundred years ago! Why do you think there is a modern day effort to repatriate the children who attended institutions like the Carlisle Indian Industrial School?

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Exit Ticket: Please evaluate how well you understood today’s lesson on a scale from 1 to 4: