Indian Boarding Schools: A Case Study of Assimilation, Resistance, and Resilience

Alternate Title

[Contemporary American Indian History]

[Curriculum Units by National Fellows of the Yale National Initiative ; vol. 1, 2016]

[Yale National Initiative National Seminars]

Curriculum unit developed for high school students. Objective is for students to be able to answer the following questions: What is assimilation and its variety of terms and how are these sociological concepts related to Native American people? How was assimilation used as a discrimination tool against Native American people? How have Native American people resisted these assimilation attempts? and How have Native American people demonstrated their resilience to these assimilation policies over time?

Author/Creator

Barbara Prillaman

Contributor/Editor

Yale National Initiative to Strengthen Teaching in Public Schools

Open Access

Yes

Primary Source

No

Publisher

Yale University

Publication Date

[2016]