http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2008/06/13/canada-apologizes-for-indian-boarding-schools/ Sociological Images encourages people to exercise and develop their sociological imaginations with discussions of compelling visuals that span the breadth of sociological inquiry. Fri, 10 Apr 2015 12:13:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2008/06/13/canada-apologizes-for-indian-boarding-schools/comment-page-1/#comment-3053 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:55:18 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/?p=1419#comment-3053 […] My Mom took these images in a museum in Sitka, Alaska (go Mom!).   This is David P. Howard, an Alaskan Native, and his family in 1917 (or so).  Notice how Howard and his family appear to have shed every possible sign of “native-ness” in this picture.  The conquest of American Indians was achieved, in part, through forced and coerced assimilation (see this post on American Indian boarding schools in Canada). […]

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