Quotes about assimilation



Student Worksheet 3-Essay Assignment

Directions: Below is a list of quotes regarding assimilation. Choose one of the quotes and react to it in an essay. Within your essay, please use the Carlisle Indian Industrial School as an example of assimilation. Include specific information you have uncovered from the stations of primary sources and recorded on Student Worksheet 1-Investigating the Facts.

“The common schools are the stomachs of the country in which all people that come to us are assimilated within a generation. When a lion eats an ox, the lion does not become an ox, but the ox becomes a lion.” …Henry Ward Beecher

THE RED MAN, VolumeX, No. 6, July and August 1890.

“If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place. He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart he put other and different desires. Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.

It is not necessary that eagles should be crows.”

…Sitting Bull (Teton Sioux).

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“To govern is to populate, assimilating in the beginning, then educating and selecting”

Jose Enrique Rodo (1872-1917) Ariel [1900]

“…Perhaps the national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means standardization. But standardization is the surest way to destroy initiative, to benumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.”

Ida Tarbell (1857-1944) All in a Day’s Work, Chapter 19 (1939)

“…a nation to be strong, must be united; to be united, must be equal in condition, to be equal in condition, must be similar in habits and feeling; to be similar in habits and feeling, must be raised in national institutions as the children of a common family, and citizens of a common country.”

Frances Wright (1795-1852) A Scottish author and speaker who became a United States citizen . Course of Popular Lectures, Lecture 7 (1829). Lecture given June 2, 1829, after she had recently become an American citizen.

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