The Good and Bad Side to Boarding Schools with Dan Jerome

Let’s see my father was born in 1888 in Dakota Territory and of course according to everybody else they were uncivilized the Indian were uncivilized at that particular time in fact in 1950 and I think they put out a blue book for North Dakota ever so many years they put our history book so to speak of what the history is all about for North Dakota and the federal government wrote to after 25 years of being a state the federal government wrote North Dakota and congratulating one it just took a short 25 years to civilize the Indian people here in North Dakota so but in 1914 my mother and dad were both civilized by that directive I suppose I wonder what do you want to call it and then in 1924 they made the all of us citizens so when I was born I was civilized and I was born to civilized parents and to citizens of the United States no I did not attend boarding school you know I my dad and my mother both attended boarding schools and they didn’t particularly care for the type of education that was there they were harsh on them because first of all my dad didn’t speak the English language he spoke French and he spoke coughs he spoke to mischief language and not there are not any English at all so and they didn’t allow him to speak the language and he was supposed to communicate I don’t know what how with his hands I suppose but so he didn’t want us to go to the boarding schools and he would be even teaches the language because of that no they send us here but there were a lot of people that did go to boarding schools so from here and some of them had a terrible experience with it others had very good experiences I mean you get the both sides of the story