Betancourt, Stephanie. “Why Did The U.S. Government Force Indian Children Into Boarding
School?” Do All Indians Live In Tipis: Questions and Answers From The National Museum of the American Indian. Sally Barrows. New York: Harper Collins Publisher,
2007. 186-187. Print
The white settler believed in the phrase, “kill the indian, save the man.” This meant that the white government was trying to educate the indians to be more like the whites and be educated. starting in 1970’s they established boarding schools and sometimes took kids with force or parents consent to attend. They made the schools far away so the kids would not escape and try to run home. carpentry, gardening, and farming are practiced by the boys. …show more content…
Whites and the Indians made a peace treaty eleven years later to give back the white children. True son had an Indian family all the years he was captive. He came to love this family and knew the language well that he did not want to go back to the whites. He was exchanged to the whites and meet his real Family. Right away he did not like it, he ended up arguing all the time and refusing to do some stuff. Stealing from his White family is what he did throughout the time he was there to one day escape. His Indian cousin and a friend came to find him and his friend, Little Crane was shot by the whites. His cousin, Half Arrow, meet with True Son and they escaped by going to the river and stealing a traders boat. When they reached the Indian territory where they were safe, the camped out in the forest for about a month. One day, they decided to head back and go back to the Lenni lenape people(home) and see their family again. True Sons job to get back at the whites was to stop a settlers boat the was in the water and make them come closer so the Indians could shoot at them. When he went out to stop them and they started to come in he started to yell and say that it is an ambush. Later, the council decided that he had to be banished instead of being …show more content…
Nicholas Hytner. Twentieth Century Fox Film. Daniel Day Lewis, Winona
Ryder, Paul Scofield, 1996 Film.
The story takes place in salem, Massachusetts in 1692. Abigail and some girls went in to the forest one night and were dancing. Someone saw them and accused them of witchcraft. Once the girls realized they could blame people saying that they participated in witchcraft, they could get rid of the people they did not like. lots of people were accused and most were hung. Abigail wanted to have John Proctor to herself so she accused her wife of witchcraft so she would die. Reverend Hale was a guy who could tell if witchcraft is present. At first he did but at the end he realized it was all a hoax.
The girls had the power because they accused people who they did not like and people believed him. They knew what they were doing and and how it would hurt other people but they did it anyway. Assimilation in the story was that they wanted everybody to be free from witchcraft. And the identity of the town was a sin free, God loving person.
Irving Washington “Rip Van Winkle” Elements of Literature. 1819. 154-165. Collier & Son, P.F, New York.