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Detail of beadwork from an Ojibwe medicine pouch

Sunday, March 8, 2009

Indian Boarding School

7 comments:

brantmcconnell said...

When was this picture taken? It seems very bleak, and noe of the kids look particularly happy.

Ellie Simmons said...

I agree with Brant, none of the children look happy, but it also took 10 minutes to take a picture, so smiling would have been difficult. Also you can see the military style dress making the students appear like prisoners.

Anonymous said...

Also, notice the boys and girls are separate.

Maryclaire said...

do they ever say in the book if the kids at Willie Sherman have to wear uniforms?

rbreaux said...

it might be applied. they are all given clothes it sounds like. i don't know if they are uniform or army surplus.

Emily A said...

I think its pretty interesting how the boys and girls are seperated, as Rachel said, just like at Willie Sherman; two lines, one of boys and one of girls. It reminds me of Catholic school.

I don't know if they wear uniforms at Willie Sherman but I think they just wear whatever they have and if they don't have any clothes, like Edgar, they wear whatever hand-me-downs they get.

Jessica Deckard said...

Government run schools often have uniforms because they are cheap, so that's a good thing to wonder about. Edgar doesn't have much of anything, but I think his clothes come from Art exclusively.