The first chapter is titled beginnings. It talks about how white or Caucasian people wanted to educate the Natives in their own way. One part stated they want to “kill the Indian and save the man”. This chapter also talks about how the boarding schools were conducted. Children were taking away from their families at a very young age. When they attended school the girls were taught how to be house wives. They would learn how to clean, sew and cook. The boys were taught how to be carpenters and farmers. Then the chapter got into Haskell the school. Haskell was the forth boarding school opened in the U.S. The name came from a man named Dudley Haskell. Haskell opened its doors on September 1, 1884, students consisted of twelve Ponca boys, and they were joined by two Chillocco boys. Five girls and three boys from Ottawa reservation also joined. By the end of that school year, there were over four hundred students attending Haskell Institute. Like Chillocco hard discipline and hard labor were part of the system. To me it seems like all boarding schools had the same agenda. No matter what school you went too, they all had the same set of rules. No wonder why a lot of tribes lost there ways and language, because the majority of the children went to boarding school where they were forbidden to speak their language and practice their ways.
