Module 6 Assignment Analysis
Module 6 Assignment
1. Why is it important for the authors to make distinctions between the educational experiences of American Indian children and the experiences of white children? The schools were intended as an alternative to the out-right extermination seriously advocated by Generals Sherman and Sheridan(Rothenberg & Mayhew, 2014). The author also compared the Indian children’s experience to Nazi concentration camps. Thus when evaluating the Psychological experience of the Indian children, the only reference was those of experiences of white children. Again the text reads, “ difference if from ours- the shock to the child upon arrival is still tremendous.”(Rothenberg & Mayhew, 2014)
2. Explain the authors' resistance and hostility toward
1. Why is it important for the authors to make distinctions between the educational experiences of American Indian children and the experiences of white children? The schools were intended as an alternative to the out-right extermination seriously advocated by Generals Sherman and Sheridan(Rothenberg & Mayhew, 2014). The author also compared the Indian children’s experience to Nazi concentration camps. Thus when evaluating the Psychological experience of the Indian children, the only reference was those of experiences of white children. Again the text reads, “ difference if from ours- the shock to the child upon arrival is still tremendous.”(Rothenberg & Mayhew, 2014)
2. Explain the authors' resistance and hostility toward