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The child as frustrated refusal of assimilation.
12022-12-11T18:09:04-08:00Kai Chased7cab5968a3a916efd1a14a48cc4832d5d5514ae416963plain2022-12-11T20:43:55-08:00Kai Chased7cab5968a3a916efd1a14a48cc4832d5d5514aeThe girl here refuses the requirements of assimilation which would allow her access to her community dance. On one hand, this demonstrates what Arvin et al. discuss as the processes of the gender binary as settler colonial means of assimilation. They state that "as settler nations sought to disappear Indigenous peoples’ complex structures of government and kinship, the management of Indigenous peoples’ gender roles and sexuality was also key in remaking Indigenous peoples into settler state citizens" (14-15). That is, part and parcel to assimilation into the settler state relied/s on enforcing the gender binary in order to interrupt important kinship formations and open up potential rifts in the community. We see this here as the child's resistance to the school processes bar her from seeking companionship as she comes into the integral space of young womanhood. Arvin et al. go on to tie such severing as part and parcel to the bording-school process itself, which "attempted to mold Native children into Western gender roles" (15). The young girl's resistance does not come without great pain, which pulls on the heart of her mother who hates to see her suffer so.
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1media/americanindianst1921zitk_0082_thumb.jpeg2022-12-11T16:41:48-08:00Kai Chased7cab5968a3a916efd1a14a48cc4832d5d5514aeSchool Days (72-73)1media/americanindianst1921zitk_0082.jpegplain2022-12-11T16:41:48-08:00Kai Chased7cab5968a3a916efd1a14a48cc4832d5d5514ae