I chose this document because it's the one that kind of hit me the hardest. I also, believe it ties really well with the chapter because it shares a story about little Indian girl who was forced to go to boarding school after the settlers had claimed the Indians land for their own benefit. These Indians were treated very unfairly back in those days, they stripped basically there way of living. Instead of trying to speak to these Indians or communicate somehow, the settlers seemed filled with greed and power that they wanted some of the Indians land to first build train tracks to deliver cattle and so forth to different places faster. Then at some point they discovered gold and silver and then decided they wanted all their land. Except they went about things all wrong, they took the Indians land and didn't care. The settlers did try to help with the Treaty of Laramie which just basically supposed to keep the settlers off the Indians land. The Indians kept their end of the bargain, but the settlers really didn't care because all they wanted was to be rich. After all the struggle the Indians went through the settlers offered them a better place to move. A reservation where they would still be able to practices there natural ways. What they didn't tell them was they had to conform to the American way. They didn't like that idea and after many wars and battles the Indians gave up and agreed to become Americans, which meant they had to change their names, cut their hair, and the children must attend boarding school. The document 15.9 describes the hardships these children had to face (some not knowing why) in boarding school. This was on a particular young girl who was scared out of her mind as to why these settlers would not let her be free. She was frightened yet strong but confused by all the crazy rules and rituals they did. Her first day she remembers it very well, explaining that though her spirit tore itself in the struggles for her freedom she felt all was useless.
He received his education at a churchyard school and then attended boarding school about 30 miles away from home. ... A year after that he became a colonel in the French and Indian War. ... HE had a hard life. ... He ran for president in 1912 on a Progressive ticket. ... "George Washington's Life." ...