Summary of Michael Marker's Article

In the article Indigenous Resistance and Racist Schooling on the Borders of Empires: Coast Salish Cultural Survival, Michael Marker talks about the Coast Salish people. They live on the border of America and Canada in Washington State and British Columbia. Since the villages are spread out, they are required to travel across the border frequently to be with their people. The colonizing of this area led to racism against the Coast Salish people. The main way that people discriminated against the Coast Salish tribes were through the education system. The schools were designed to erase their memory of their culture and make them more "civilized." To counteract these efforts to assimilate Coast Salish people, they have reclaimed government boarding schools to get away from public schools who were trying to wipe out their culture.