The Experiences of Native Americans

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The way that American Indians were marginalized was by being forced to leave their families in order to become like "white people." In the text it states "it was not Pratt's plan to simply educate these children and teach them English. He also planned to "civilize" them-to strop them of their traditions and ways of life. This showed me that they were made as if they didn't exist because people were trying to get them to forget where they came from and they were making them forget who they were. The soldiers were making them someone else. The American Indians were pushed aside in society because it was as if they traditions and their way of life was just erased and taken from them. Then made them learn new traditions and a new way of living life.

The difference between Luther Standing Bear's and Shanice Britton's experiences in their time period is that Luther was forced to learn how to become a "white men" and he was actually forced to forget all his traditions and his old way of life. In the text it said "Kill the Indian, save the man" as if saying get ride of the Indian side of them and just leave the man in them. However, for Shanice, she was actually able to share her traditions with people and tell them about what she did as a kid and how Native Americans really are. In the text it said " I explain that each tribe has its own traditions." She got to explain to people the actual life of a Native American and answered questions that they had to her classmates that she told. The similarities between them is that both of them did get to live as a Native American through their life.