“Indigenous Resistance and Racist Schooling on the Borders of Empires: Coast Salish Cultural Survival” Response

“Indigenous Resistance and Racist Schooling on the Borders of Empires: Coast Salish Cultural Survival” by Michael Marker was an scientific journal that reviewed and analyzed the division of the Coast Salish people in the British Columbia and Washington state districts. The sudden division of land brought about a confinement of religion, education, families, and culture. The Salish people were subjected to attempts of civilizing by the pioneers to inject their personal beliefs and culture into the minds of the Salish, slowly diminishing their culture’s own history. These attempts were most influential through the school system, restricting the natives from learning history of their people, limiting certain rights, and racism.

After reviewing this article it is clear to see that this issue is reoccurring through history. Education and laws are the ultimate weapons used throughout time to influence society in defining what is right and wrong. Culture is an element that defines a person’s individuality and directing their way of life. If this is strip of someone and has no effort of voicing their culture they will be confined and forced of change based off the dominate society.