I enjoyed reading this chapter very much. This chapter starts out talking about how students enjoyed going to school at Haskell. It also talked about how Haskell was competing with other boarding schools like Chilocco and Charlisle with enrollment. A lot of student’s parents did not want their children going to boarding school because of health reasons and scared that your children were going to lose their culture and language. The schools wanted to recruit reservation children because they wanted full blooded Indians attending their school. The book calls the 1\4 and 1\8 Indians “white Indians”. In 1902 Haskell expelled 120 students because they were so called white Indians. This really surprised me to read this part. Like Chilocco, a lot of students enjoyed going to boarding school. I am starting to change my mind about boarding school after reading Chilocco and the start of Voices from Haskell.
Wow, 1/4 and 1/8 were called white indians? That is interesting. I wonder who was responsible for expelling the students and how they formally had to explain that? It seems that if they were competing for enrollment numbers that they would take anyone. So, I agree with you, that is pretty shocking.
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