Live By The Golden Rule

In selecting “claims of value” to answer the question for this paper, I question the term “ claims of value” and hope I have interpreted what is properly required. Crow Dog was thrust into a schooling system not of her choice in which she was forced to endure daily threats, punishments, torture, and hardships. Her real education had to have suffered, as the education she actually received, mainly served to develop hatred of the white man. Throughout her exposure to torture of the parochial boarding school, St. Frances, the nuns and fathers and all those connected to the school, repeatedly subjected Crow Dog to horrors, punishment and mis-treatments. She was of the “lower class” of Indian students, not a “near white” who came from “nice families” and who received preferred treatments.
Crow Dog’s Indian heritage, and that of her fellow students, was totally not respected nor were cultural differences of the Indian ever acknowledged, nor recognized, nor provided for within the school. She and her classmates were treated as lower class misfits all of whom had to be trained in the ways of the whites. Violence and punishment were the major educational techniques of the school. Crow Dog and her classmates were forced to learn by being denied, beaten, restricted, and punished in their daily lives. The side effect of this education was the creation of intense hatred and distrust of white people by her and her fellow students. A quote from the text: “Racism breeds racism in reverse” is quite telling as this supposeded education, through mass beatings, poor treatment and constant punishment, created great anger and distrust within the Indian students against their white “educators”. Those educators were actually their controllers, punishers, and considered wicked masters of the low class Indian students. Humiliation, combined with violence, was the environment to which the students were constantly exposed throughout their so-called education.
Crow Dog pathetically made...