Indigenous Resistance Synthesis

Michael Marker’s, Indigenous Resistance and Racist Schooling, discusses how the Coast Salish Indians were assimilated. During the 1900s the Coast Salish people were brought into modern culture. The Coast Salish Indians lived on the Washington State and Canadian border. Within the United States’ borders the Salish Indians were placed into boarding schools, however in those in Canada were sent to traditional schools along with other Canadians. Discrimination was not a huge issue in the United States for these people because they were all in boarding schools together, but in Canada, discrimination was fierce due to the Salish being placed in school with the rest of the Canadians.

This article reminded me of when American schools became integrated. Basically what happened in Canada happened here when Whites and Blacks started going to the same schools. American avoided the problem by placing all of the Salish Indians into a boarding school just for them, thus preventing discrimination.