Question

What were Indian Boarding Schools primarily designed to do?
1. learn about and document American Indian culture
2. teach American Indians English, mathematics, science, and history
3. strip American Indians of their cultural traditions
4. change American Indians’ misunderstandings about white settlers

Answer 1

learn about and document American Indian culture

Answer 2

The correct answer is 3. strip American Indians of their cultural traditions

Explanation

During the late nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, the Indian Boarding Schools were established, these were institutions created by Christian missionaries with the aim of interning the Native American youth and children to be subjected to education in Euro-American culture. As part of this education, Native Americans were subjected to change their names, their dress, their way of speaking, among other factors of their daily life. They were also taught subjects of traditional Euro-American schools. This resulted in the loss of various traditional customs of Native Americans. So, the correct answer is 3. strip American Indians of their cultural traditions