Carly Frazier was one of the Native Americans who were taken away from her parents to attend boarding school. Megan Sandford is the coordinator of boarding schools. The topic is about the experience of Carly Frazier in boarding school when she was young.
Megan Sandford: Do you think that boarding schools was a good idea?
Carly Frazier: No. Boarding schools was for Native American children to learn white culture. For them, it was very difficult to adapt with a whole new environment, and learn a new language and very different culture. Many children died by poisoning because of the food, beating up by the officials, and starving because of uncooperative children. School officials were not doing what they were supposed to do, and the government was okay with the way they were treating the children.
Megan Sandford: Do you agree …show more content…
Sexual and physical abuse that began in the early years of the boarding school system. Physical and sexual aggression by school officials against students from boarding school.
Megan Sandford: The effects of the sexual abuse in the schools continue through Native communities today. The experiences of such violence from the Native American people are with traumatic reactions and about what they experienced. Do you think it is true?
Carly Frazier: I agree because four decades after the United States ended the forced enrollment for boarding schools. Abuses in boarding schools are much better documented because survivors are willing to talk about their experiences.
Megan Sandford: The higher class was still removing thousands of children from their Native American families in the 1970s. Even today, Indian parents continue to give their children up adoptions and think that their child will have a better life in a white, middle-class family. Do you agree that the children will have a better life with a middle class