Question

fill - in - the - blank worksheet (with word bank)
instructions: use the word bank to complete each statement. some terms are used more than once.
word bank: assimilation, \kill the indian, save the man\, \unspoken\, hair, military, ethnic cleansing, pine ridge, utes, ancestral puebloans, lewis and clark, louisiana purchase, encroachment, bosque redondo, 1868 treaty, missionaries, dawes act, language, carlisle, richard henry pratt, haskell, sherman, confinement, handcuffs, abuse, manuelito, disease, 25, 6,000, 60,000, john collier, merriam report, unmarked graves, indian civil rights act, self - determination, santa fe indian school, nineteen pueblos, code talkers, iwo jima, mascots, intergenerational trauma

1. the policy goal of boarding schools was _, stripping away native identity.
2. a slogan linked to these schools was, \_\
3. students _ was cut and replaced with military - style uniforms.
4. native _ was to be \_\ banned from use.
5. early schools were operated with _ precision and strict discipline.
6. dr. jennifer nez denetdale argues this was more accurately _ than assimilation.
7. a photo shows families camping near a school on the _ sioux reservation.
8. forrest cuch explained how the policy left _ feeling

ot competent\ in either world.

1. the film opens along the san juan river with sites of the _ who lived there.
2. a pivotal expedition for u.s. expansion was led by _ after the _ of 1803.
3. native people experienced land _ as settlers moved west.

Explanation:

1. The goal of boarding schools for Native - Americans was assimilation to erase their identity.
2. "Kill the Indian, save the man" was a well - known slogan related to these assimilationist efforts.
3. Native American students' hair was cut as part of the forced assimilation process.
4. Native language was banned, considered "Unspoken" in these schools.
5. Early Native American boarding schools were run with military - like precision.
6. Some argue it was more like ethnic cleansing than assimilation.
7. Pine Ridge is a Sioux reservation.
8. The assimilation policy left Native Americans feeling inadequate in both their own and the dominant culture.
9. Ancestral Puebloans lived along the San Juan River.
10. Lewis and Clark led an important expedition after the Louisiana Purchase in 1803.
11. As settlers moved west, Native people experienced land encroachment.

Answer:

1. assimilation
2. "Kill the Indian, save the man"
3. hair
4. language; "Unspoken"
5. military
6. ethnic cleansing
7. Pine Ridge
8. Native Americans
9. Ancestral Puebloans
10. Lewis and Clark; Louisiana Purchase
11. encroachment