Why did Mary Dog write this short story about her experiences?.How did this experience affect Mary Crow Dog’s view of white people?.Why didn’t more Native Americans stand up to the Americans or fight back?.Why did the Americans use force to try to socialize the Native Americans?.Mary Dog wrote this short essay to show how people tend to not use the cultural relativism perspective and how everyone from the dominant society wants the other little societies to be socialized in theirs own. The priest she hit ended up later realizing how bad the boarding school was treating the Native Americans and started standing up for them. Mary Dog, the author was one to fight back and ended up hitting one of her priests in the face after she tried to stand up for one of her fellow classmates. As children got bigger and older they had thoughts about fighting back.
Many children tried to run away from the boarding school, but ultimately were found and brought back and then immediately swatted with a wooden stick. The children were only able to see their families for just 7 days out of the 365 in the year. Other times they were placed in a dark boarded up the room while only being fed bread and water for a week. If the children didn’t listen or were to disobey any rules they would be swatted many times by the nuns with a wooden stick.
, kneeling in church for an hour or so seven o’clock, breakfast eight o’clock, scrub the floor, peel spuds, make classes” (Dog 565). Their schedule usually went as followed, “Six A. The children had very strict rules and schedules. Many Native Americans now compare this incident to the Nazi concentration camps during world war II. The children were abused in these so-called “boarding schools”. Thousands of children were forced to live in these boarding schools their whole adolescent years. They took the Native American children from their homes and from their families and placed them into boarding schools. They were doing this so the Native Americans became apart of the dominant society, which then was the whites society in America.
The white race in American had a goal to civilize or integrate the Native Americans to the norms and values of the whites starting in 1879. In the short essay “Civilize Them With a Stick” Mary Dog writes about her experiences in a catholic boarding school as a child.
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