No Parole Today: Pg 1-17

This book is basically about the experience of the young children and their life's at the white mans boarding homes. Laura Tohe does a great job in explaining the struggles and lifestyles of the children in these boarding homes. She explained how these children were taken away from their homes, their family and culture to live that life of the civilized white culture. These young children were treated very unfair while living in these schools and till this day it still affects them. They were treated as prisoners and were stripped from all their customs. Some tried to run away, some succeed while some died trying, others died from loneliness and some survived. They felt ashamed of what they were their culture, their beliefs, the way they spoke and how they dressed. The white civilized culture did a great job affecting the lives of these children. They were expected to wake up early and follow a precise schedule through out their everyday life's. These children were basically soldiers. Not only that but their culture was not respected at all whatsoever, their names were changed and during roll call these children where humiliated by being called differently from their own names in which they did not have a voice to speak up. It got to a point that these children were trapped and had no escape yet to follow the "rules" of these white people and be the good students that they were expected to be.