Reflection Indigenous Resistance

This paper talks about the Coast Salish people of British Columbia and Washington State.  The Coast Salish people have resisted modern education as a tool of cultural eradication.  The schools reject the indigenous discourse and it is creating problems with Coast Salish people.  Integrated public schools became worse for racism in the 1960's to 1970's.  Education from the North American perspective seems to only concern things within their borders.  From the Coast Salish people, looking in, they see the presence of multiple empires that we as Americans, cannot see.  There is currently a blending of language and culture in America, why can't there be a blend of education?  The Coast Salish people believe that they are a culture without borders unlike the Aboriginal people.  In the early 1900's, residential schooling helped keep other races from being in the schools.  When integration happened, the issue of racism became apparent.  Discrimination became worse and most adolescents were forced to go to boarding schools to escape the corruption.  The Coast Salish people represent the struggle to integrate indigenous people into modern education.