SOCA02H3 Final: MAPPING NOTES FINAL.docx
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50 civilize them with a stick (mary crow dog, richard erdoes) Mary crow dog and richard erdoes reveal how the institution of education can be an agent of social control whose purpose is to assimilate racial-ethnic populations, such as. Native americans, into the dominant culture; crow dog is a native american activist and erdoes is the ghostwriter of her autobiography. Even now, when the typical indian boarding school are much improved, the shock to the child upon arrival is still tremendous. In the old days, nature was our people s only school and they needed no other; life in the tipi circle was harmonious until the whiskey peddlers arrived with their wagons and barrels of injun whiskey . The people who were stuck upon solving the indian problem by making us into whites retreated from this position only step by step in the wake of indian protests.
