Native American Boarding School Experience and the Effects ...

On the one side the missionaries had a belief that to be a “progressive” Indian Christian one had to give up all manner of living Indian ways including the ways of wearing buckskins, living in tipi’s, using Indian names, gathering roots, seeking wey-a-kin’s (spirit guide) and all traditional ways of worshipping the Tah-mah-ne-wes (Great ... ................
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