However, according to an Indian agent in 1878, allowing native children to spend a majority of their time with their families and communities "makes the attempt to educate and civilize them a mere farce."Īnd according to The Atlantic, "contact with family and community members was discouraged or forbidden altogether." Any belongings that the children arrived with, including " blankets, ornaments, and jewelry," were also confiscated. In Chemawa Indian Boarding School, Sonciray Bonnell writes that by the 1860s, there were at least 48 different reservation day schools, along with missionary schools, aimed at "civilizing" Native American children. If you sh'd think proper to send any, they sh'd not exceed the Age of 8 Years." "The Young Men that came here for Education at our College did not like Confinement, and, in Course, no Inclination to Learning. Robert Dinwiddie wrote a letter to Cherokee leaders complaining about the students. As a result, few native groups allowed their children to attend the school and sometimes sent those they'd captured to the school instead.įrom 1753 to 1755, eight Cherokee students attended William & Mary. However, many Indigenous tribal elders thought that the school was " nothing more than an elaborate ruse" designed to kidnap and enslave.
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