Continuing the Plan

20 Years Later...

By 1880, there were 60 reservation schools founded. In total, these schools had 6,200 children in attendance. The schools targeted teaching a counterculture to traditional Native American values. For example, schools focused on possessive individualism instead of the traditional Native American belief of communal ownership. 

This looked like teaching the children about the value of money and how important it is to have money to lead a successful life. Money should be made to support oneself. However, traditional Native Americans believe in sharing the land, crops, and food. 

High up officials made a big change to the structure of the schools, however. They felt progress in integrating these children into white culture had slowed down due to life at home at night and summers. Therefore, they started to create boarding schools. The famous goal of these boarding schools was to "Kill the Indian, Save the Man." 

... implying that these people needed to be rescued from Native American culture.