where the spirit lives
The movie “Where the Spirit lives” expressed two different views on the native peoples ne is that the government tried to assimilate the native culture into a society that was far different from theirs. The second is that the government set a law enforcing that if the native children left the schools they had no choice but to go back to the reserve. Viewing this movie, the main problem that was shown was that the government would take the native children from their reserves and family dwellings. They would use the laws set to seclude and isolate the children from their parents while placing them into a school that was geared for the native culture. The effects that the native children had while they lived in these schools have been the loss of the native tongue, their given names and the memories that they had from their reserves. They had rules set upon them that forced them to speak English and not spe
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Indian Agent, , native children, speak english, native culture, chance feel, native peoples,
Approximate Word count = 617
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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