Indigenous Resistance

Washington State and British Columbia have tried to assimilate the Aboriginal communities into our own culture. They used education as a way to get rid of the traditions they have within their culture, and make them more like ours. The Coast Salish people resisted the assimilation that the United States and Canada tried to force them into. Marker says that, "Coast Salish students were, in the late twentieth century, still resisting the same oppressive categorisations of identity that their grandparents had struggled against in the nineteenth century." I find this very hard to believe because we were not able to realize by then that what we were doing was wrong. We should have given the aboriginal people the rights they deserve and should not have forced them into assimilation.