The Intersection of Karuk Storytelling and Education
The Intersection of Karuk Storytelling and Education
The Intersection of Karuk Storytelling and Education
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Indians: the United States, as a settler colony, cannot exist without appropriating<br />
indigenous l<strong>and</strong>s <strong>and</strong> negating the original inhabitants’ title to the l<strong>and</strong>. (Jacobs 84) After<br />
the Civil War, national policy shifted from a focus on wholesale slaughter <strong>of</strong> Native<br />
peoples (some have called it “ethnic cleansing” or “genocide,” c.f. Norton) to one <strong>of</strong><br />
assimilation. In the infamous words <strong>of</strong> Richard Henry Pratt, founder <strong>of</strong> the Indian<br />
boarding school system, “Kill the Indian to save the man.” But before we can talk about<br />
the imposition <strong>of</strong> Euro-American education on our people, we have to consider classic<br />
Káruk education, <strong>and</strong> the ways in which storytelling inhabited it.<br />
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