One of things in the chapter that I learned and outraged me, was that the children were more-or-less forced into manual labor.The photo at the left came from the blog of Tom Benjey, and it shows the fields surrounding Chilocco.
The Chilocco theory was that every man needed a trade. The way they applied this was to essentially force the boys into manual labor.
They thought that Indian youth were a shy and timid people, that needed to be exposed to both people and tools. Perhaps the youth were less shy, and only intimidated by their non-native counterparts.
I agree with you on the children being forced into hard manual labor. It was sad to see them have to spend their summers working so hard. I loved reading your responses. Have a nice spring break! Yvonne
ReplyDelete