"Educating Indian Children"

In an attempt to educate Indian Children the United States ran a boarding school equivalent to that of Nazi Germany. Children were taken from their home town and forced to forget their costumes, languages, and family. Children did not attend these boarding schools voluntarily. The General was able to persuade the Indian Chief to give up three hundred of their children for the first class of the boarding school. Children felt like they were being taken to the edge of the world and were going to be thrown off upon arrival. The Children did not trust the white man and they clearly did not want to be a part of this educating process. To the General educating the Indian children was the only way to break down the culture and Americanize them. These boarding schools became a very dangerous learning institute it became a gateway to death, many children died. Children died of malnutrition, homesickness, and poor living conditions. Children were given little or no clothing and had to sleep on the cold floor with no banquets. Why take the children if the school is not prepared to host them? I think the answer is the Americans still saw the Indians as not human and they believed they could survive under any conditions they were viewed more like wild animals. These camps to me are the equivalent of Nazi Germany because children were taken and placed in camps involuntarily and many died. General who started the program believed he was helping the Indians become Americanized and that he was doing the right thing. He was doing the complete opposite though; he was robbing these children of their youth and family. Hitler believed he was doing the right thing when he set Jews in concentration camps. He believed he was helping man kind but like the general he was wrong. No one ever thought these boarding schools were immoral or any thing is that because the children were Indian? What if it was the opposite? What if white children were taken from their homes and “Indianized”?