Indigenous resistance
and racist schooling on the borders of
empires: Coast Salish
cultural survival
This article discuses the struggle that indigenous peoples of
the Canada-USA border are facing in regards to schooling. Regional schools in
the US along the border are known for “removing Indigenous peoples from the
land they were from and eradicating the memory of languages and place-based
epistemologies containing the Indigenous meanings of time and reality.” These people
were only allowed to attend the regional schools that would strip them of their
identity. Makere Stewart-Harawira says that “education was the primary tool for
the submerging of Indigenous peoples’ highly developed ‘inner’ ways of knowing
under a layer of colonising ideologies.” This means that in order for
indigenous people to continue to live on the “US” soil that they had to attend
thee schools.