Indigenous resistance and racist
schooling on the borders of empires: Coast Salish cultural survival by
Michael Marker describes the separation of indigenous people from society. The article focuses on educational policy and
the ways in which the Coast Salish have adapted to society. The Coast Salish population has set forth
measures to resist conforming to society. Marker focuses a lot of the education
barrier of racism when indigenous groups in society integrate into public
school. Coast Salish and other groups in
society have created government boarding schools to continue their
culture. It keeps the problem of
creating cultural barriers away from public schools.
In
response to Marker’s article, I believe that it is important for every group in
society to keep their culture. However, segregating yourself from society to
avoid racism is a bit of an extreme. Conformity is not always a bad thing;
sometimes it is good to embrace other’s cultures as well as your own.
I agree Andrew conformity is not good or bad. Also, even though racism is bad this article showed that they went to the extreme to try and avoid it. Sometimes people have there own ways of fixing problems no matter what the extent.
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