Coast Salish cultural survival

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.