Would We Be Killed? - Life On the Rez.

Native Americans have been marginalized by society and made to feel as if they didn't exist by: Captain Pratt tricking the children's parents into thinking that he is going to give them education. In the text it says, "He believed that Native American children deserved a quality education." So he came up with a plan, his plan was to turn abandoned army barracks in Carlisle, as said in the text. This had convinced the parents to let their children go. But Pratt didn't tell the parents the whole story. Pratt also wanted to kill the Native American culture inside the person. He believed he needed to do this to them in order for them to succeed in America. The text says, "Pratt believed that the children needed to completely abandon their "Indian-ness" in order to succeed in America." This proves that Pratt would then make the children completely change their lifestyles.

The purpose of Shanice's essay was to tell to people that just because she is a Native American, she is just as normal as everybody else. Also to inform the readers the many different things her tribes do. She wants people to know that Native Americans are regular people, but they still proudly show their culture through their actions. Her town is just like any other town, with restaurants, paved roads, a grocery store, like a little small community. She wants the readers to know that they have a lot of traditions they pass down generation, through generation, and if you don't pass them down, that part of the tradition might disappear.