"Would we be killed" response

Native Americans were marginalized by many ways. One of the reasons were because how they look, act, dress, talk and because of their culture in general. They felt like they didn't exist because schools tried to take away the culture within them. For example on page 13 it states, "I was not Pratt's plan to simply educate these children and teach them English. He also planned to 'civilize' them---to strip them from traditions and ways of life." This proves that the Americans tried to take or to extinct the Native Americans. But in the end not all of the children lost their culture.

I wanted to compare Luther Standing Bear's to Shanice's life. They were the same because they both went to school and had to take away what they had dear to them and that was their culture. Another was that they were forced to go to school. But different because Luther Standing Bear had lost all of his culture but very little left. But Shanice had more of Native American inside her and wanted to go to school. She felt like she had everything but just not where she originally was when she was born.