Survival response

Indigenous Resistance shows the issue of assimilation of the Salish people into British Columbia and Washington State. the salish occupied a region on the border of both countries. The children of these indians were forced to go to boarding school or face punishment and criticism in public schools. In the schools they were trained into white culture and sent to white foster families never seeing their family again. The natives were treated with racism and the americans did all to destroy their culture. They wanted their land and used assimilation to both take away their culture and take their property.