Week 2 photo share

[Nadeen Kharputly]

Please submit your photograph and brief summary to reflect on this week’s theme: theorizing race and space.

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[Nadeen Kharputly]

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[Arianna Zavala]

The photo I have decided to use for this week’s photo share is an image of three Sioux children displaying the before and after effects of attending the Carlisle Native American School in 1883. On the left side of the image you are able to see how the three children first arrived to the school, clothed in their native clothing with jewelry and accessories such as feathers in their long uncut hair. However on the right hand side of the image you see a photo being taken of the same 3 young children just 3 years later. In this image their clothes are similar clothing to what european settlers would wear along with their hair that has now been cut to resemble what they viewed as “young boys” haircut and lastly sitting properly upright with their legs crossed. I decided to use this photo in relation to this week’s topic because as discussed in the George Liptisz reading, colonialism is about removing everything that stands in the way of occupation. In order for this to play out writer Patrick Wolfe explains in his reading that because they were unsuccessful in removing everyone from the land instead they decided to erase their identity. In this case, the Carlisle Boarding school for Native American children was used in order to erase their identity by taking the children from their families at a young age and forcing them to assimilate to the European culture.

This image was located on article post from imuger.com along with other before and after photos of Native American Children at the Carlisle School.

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