No Parole Today Pg. 1-17

I was surprised to read that one of the Indian School teachers was a black woman. Before this book, I had never read nor heard of such a thing. The author does express that there were not many jobs for blacks so they had to take ones like teaching in the indian schools in order to make ends meet. Though this does not excuse any of the African Americans from their responsibility in this. It is like an opressed race oppressing an even more oppressed race. Sad, but true.
Another interesting passage that I read was when the author talks about naming. In the beginning she recalls being in her kindergarten or first grade class and listening to the instructor buthcer the students names, and none of them were really bold enough or couragious enough to correct them. This reminds me of a part in a story written by Toni Morrison called "Song of Solomon". At one point a young boy finds out how his grandfather got his name during slavery times. When the slaves were set free, his grand father had to go to get papers done on him and the man in charge asked him where he was from and who his father was. The man in charge was drunk and just made up a name based on what he had misheard, and with the boys grandfather not being able to read or write, he didn't correct him. A majority of the children that atteneded the Indian schools probably had their names changed because the mistresses and head masters lacked too much knowledge to say them correctly. They also had the intent on taking away as much Indian culture as they could and that could also be why they changed the children's names; to better assimilate them into the dominant white culture and religion.