num_pages: 56
description: As John Mote grew from infancy to adulthood his family resided at six different Indian boarding schools in the central and western part of the United States where his father was either a teacher, principal, or superintendent. During these years John sawe how the Indian boys and girls, some of them very young, were brought to the school , miles away from home, and often were away from home most of the year. Though the schools taught the children valuable lessons, the schools also attempted to rid the children of their "heathen" ways, sometimes employing painful discipline. He remembers that at the Rapid City Indian school, for example, there was a jail in the basement of the boys' dormitory in which Indian boys were confined because they had tried to run away, or had broken some rule. In later years, these schools more fully began to appreciate the native Indian culture. But some of the painful wounds they had suffered were never completely healed.
language: English
title: Growing Up With the American Indians
titlecomplete: Growing Up With the American Indians
publisher: Outskirts Pr