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RE: The Plan For Revenge Is Disrupted By Quanah Parker
Wow, things are really getting intense now. I am glad to not be in their shoes and have to debate such a difficult situation.
Those poor kids. Knowing how young children are - at times difficult but always very easily swayed by their surroundings - that certainly is a scary thought as to not only the indoctrination, but how those kids were treated.
Well in those schools they were fine, I mean like a strict Catholic school. They weren't intentionally mean to them, it was all about changing their thinking and brainwashing them to think, believe and act like whites. But many of the kids just played along and acted but then were total Indians when they got back home. But I'm sure the real small ones were successfully turned against their Indian culture.
I imagine it must have been at least a bit worse than Catholic school, because the teachers must have seen them as an inferior race, and probably treated them accordingly. Those nuns in Catholic school can be pretty scary though, so maybe it was comparable :)
Hopefully once most of those kids got back home they did revert back, even the little ones. I guess that's the good part about being easily swayed when a child. They can be moved back to their original course.
yeah well none of the other government programs worked well so maybe this one was the same way, they did need to learn English though so that's one good thing they got out of it.