Talk:Cultural assimilation of Native Americans

Non-reservation schools

This section needs lots of work, Carlisle Indian School is only one small example. Historically (even currently) there are all kinds of non-reservation boarding schools. There is that hardly obscure Ivy League college which started as an "indian school" around 1770. There are all kinds of what I would call christian missionary schools (as diverse as Roman Catholic and Church of Latter Day Saints), and "do-gooder" projects. All had their own notions on the whys and hows to "educate" children away from their parents or orginal culture.

• Bennet Law in WI
  • Tomah Indian Industrial School WI
• The Phoenix Indian School
• Short personal experiences boarding schools
• Nance OK boarding school Federal
• daily schedule and sad picture gallery This site alone lists:
  • Tulalip Indian School, ca. 1912. WA
  • Chemawa Indian School aka Forest Grove, Oregon. 1901.

• • St. Mary's Mission School in Omak, Washington. (maybe reservation school)
  • Phoenix Indian School AZ
  • Carlisle Indian School PA
• More pictures of boarding schools
  • Albuquerque Indian School NM

C**arson/Stewart Indian School Nevada, 1890-1962.

• • Mission School in Sitka AK
• Sherman School CA now Indian Cultural Museum
  • Perris Indian School was established in 1892 CA
• ASU.edu's Boarding School links
  • Santa Fe Indian School, 1890-1918
  • Ft. Lewis Boarding School, Colorado 1891-1911
  • Has Catholic microfilm index of Indian Schools records

Above from a brief search on line. --Rcollman 14:09, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

To be added

• Official relocation programs to get Native Americans off reservations and into cities such as Denver, Minneapolis, Cleveland, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and others.
• Americanization in Native American music (i.e. in 49 songs, which often have lyrics in English). Badagnani 08:51, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Also to be added:

• Child adoption policies in the 20th century (until the 1960s) that forcibly took 100,000 Native American children from their birth families into adoption by white European foster parents, in order to "civilize" young Native Americans if they were raised by white Europeans instead of their own tribal customs and traditions. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.102.53.48 (talk) 19:36, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Culture Genocide?

Does this qualify to be culture genocide? Speaker1978 (talk) 18:35, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

It's not up to editors to decide. If the topic is discussed in valid third-party sources, then it can be introduced, but look for scholarly articles. Material needs to be better sourced than in this article so far.--Parkwells (talk) 21:46, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Needs narrower focus

This article starts with discussing Americanization of the late 19th and 20th c., but goes back to beginning European contact in both the Americas. I don't think so much history is relevant or useful; it's covered better elsewhere. That is just confusing. You need to keep discussion to the US, as South America and Mexico followed different paths. Editors really need to watch for POV - yes, there were abuses, but sometimes people's intentions were good. This reads more like a polemical essay than encyclopedia entry. It also jumps around too much in time, without always identifying which period it is discussing, mixing up late 20th-21st century material with actions before WWII.--Parkwells (talk) 21:45, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

ward churchill- convicted plagiariast- should his work be listed for further reading?

please remove ward churchills books from the further reading section. he is a convicted plagiarist and should not be included in Wikipedia as a valid source. It insults the integrity of this encyclopedia. Please refer to the website Inside Higher Ed and also to the report published by his university which found numerous intentional stealing of other people's material, specifically from the book that this article is listing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.254.183.171 (talk) 01:00, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Title formatting

Are the parentheses really necessary? I think Americanization of Native Americans would look better. --Магьосник (talk) 00:30, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

Use of "Americanization"

Is the term really appropriate? It may be that this was the official terminology of the United States government at the time, but I did not see that explained on the page. As Native Americans are indiginous the the United States the term Americanization to refer to changes that were introduced to Native Americans by another group seems misleading. I believe it implies that the person who is being Americanized is foreign and makes it seem as if Native Americans were not living in the Americas. It denotes that Native Americans are somehow less "American". Also I believe this page takes a narrow view of Native Americans and doesn't take into account the differences between tribes and the very diverse relations the tribes had with the United States government, with some tribes being very supportive of certain attempts that are referenced here as "Americanization" and some being very much against it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.198.210.232 (talk) 05:04, 10 April 2010 (UTC)