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Show THE NAVAJO AS A NATION 169 75, National Archrves, Washing DC ^ **""*â- Pto W* Cannes, af Record Group Bv th1p°^!Ltl?Q^isfltS"DWfe aCCePted and education improved oril'S' .e A'S PuOHcy had Chan«ed' I»«ead of forcing the children to accept white ways, B.I.A schools beran trying to tolerate and encourage the Indian ways The Sen were taught m Navajo as well as English. Officials I sodecidedI tha" the boarding school was not the best place to teach a young chUd S Elbegl" a/ar«e ^â„¢m tobuild da/schools No durin/tbp?i£r?a^chools we"[ UP on the Navajo reservation during the 1930s. That meant that a Navajo child could spend hll life with his parents and attend school during the day His mren could come to school to see what went on there and even teke adul haTed Th: V1H At l!1,!,83"16 dme' Ae boardl"g sXol were ganged. The older children who went to them would live Z students, not laborers. They would have real jobbing Educa Hon soon became a key part of Navajo life trainm«' hduca- KnowWSSttS t^ SCnt *Eir °Wn childre" to school-snowing the schools weaknesses and strengths thev wanteH a «,„ m what their children would learn and how it'would be tauVte iNavajo teachers took jobs in local schools. Todav at last ,hP schools which the Navajo children attend are becoming iru^ |
