Indian education historic background

    Before Columbus and the invasion of Europeans, North American Indian education was force on teaching children how to survive. This education taught children to take their responsibilities to their family, group, the clan, band and their tribes. Children were taught about child rearing, home management, farming, hunting, gathering, fishing, and so on. “Each tribe also had its own religion that told the children their place in the cosmos through stories and ceremonies. Members of the extended family taught their children by example, and children copied adult activities as they played.” (American Indian/Alaska Native Education: An Overview, 2010) from this we can see that before Columbus and Europeans invaded, the education for Indian people was taught them to do some basic things, all the things they studies just in order to know how to survive and take responsibilities for their family and tribes.
    In the beginning of 15th century the European invaded India that brought tremendous changes to Indians life. I found information about this invasion, it is said “Even more damaging than the aggressive warfare of the Europeans was the introduction of new diseases, such as smallpox and measles, for which the indigenous Americans had no immunities.” (American Indian/Alaska Native Education: An Overview, 2010)
    Usually after a territory was occupied there are some new elements will be brought from other people into that territory and the invasion of European did bring some new element to Indians. After European invasion, the missionary of European came to Indian. Those missionaries did not accept Indian beliefs; in their minds Indian religions was kind of the Christian devil. So the early efforts by Europeans at Indian education were focused on converting Indians to Christianity. After the aggression of European, the education of Native was changed at earlier they were taught how to survive and then they were taught how to become a member of Christian. But the missionaries demand was totally rejected for Indian people to accept and those Europeans racism did not recognized Indians as equals even if some Indians were changed, they spoke, dressed and acted like European colonists, they still not get equal right as European people. The European was pushed any Indian survivors to the western side.