Assignment 9,

Poem, The runaways - Louise Eldrig

1. What is 'home' for the kids in these boarding schools?

Home for the kids, the runaways from the boarding school, is their old home, the place they used to live before being put in boarding schools. They long for the freedom and not being discriminated or treated poorly.

 

 

2. What was the impact of these boarding schools on the tribal traditions?

In these boarding schools the Native Americans were 'civilised', they were taught how to not be an Indian and how to be an American. These boarding schools brainwashed them so badly so that the Indian would go out of them.
The impact this had was that all the tribal traditions would be removed and that they were taught that being Indian was not good, they HAD to change and be like the 'better ones', the American. 

Kind Regards,
Carlijn and Esther