informational and it was about Native Americans who were taken from their families at young
ages and were forced to forget their culture and become American. The American's motto was “Kill the
Indian save the American.” The purpose of this wrongful doing was that they were trying to
make everyone the same, stamp out Native culture and language. They were making a judgment
saying their culture was better by brainwashing the young Native Americans. They were
replacing their Native language and culture with the American way of life.
Walter Littlemoon in the documentary was already of older age but he was still full of sadness about the loss
of his culture and the wrong-doing of the American people. After a while at the boarding school
16 miles away from where he lived, he forgot what who his mom was and what she looked like.
His mother snuck into the boarding school to visit him, and he didn’t recognize her at all until she
was walking away but that was too late because she was too far away already.
In the boarding school they were punished for disobeying by withholding food and beat them. He was full
of anger due to the fact that they were separating him from his family and making him learn a new
way of life he was not a custom to. This was wrongful and harsh of the American Government to do to
Native American children. The children had nothing to do and were not asked to be in this matter. How
would you like it if one day the government did this to your children?