Blog Analysis Post About "Would We Be Killed?"

The Native Americans were marginalized in society in result for them just basically being Native Americans. The whites didn't like them during that time, in 1879. They thought that whatever they did was wrong, and that they should be more like them. In the article it states, "It's not Pratt's plan to simply educate these children and teach them English. He also planned to "civilize" them - to strip them of their traditions and ways of life. Pratt believed that the children needed to completely abandon their "Indian-ness" in order to succeed in America." This explains that Pratt wasn't just going to educate them, but he didn't want the Native Americans to keep their traditions and other ways of living. He wanted to change that and make them to people more like him.

I think that the purpose of Shanice Britton's essay was to inform people about her being a Native American and about her not hiding it. She wanted the readers to know that if you are Native American you shouldn't be ashamed and that you shouldn't hide it. Nothing is wrong with being Native American.