There
have been differences along the border between the Coast Salish people of
British Columbia and Washington State.
Both the British Columbian’s and the American’s tried to restrain the
aboriginal people, or the Indigenous people. The main way in which they tried
to rid of the Indigenous people were through schools. The schools were designed
to eliminate the memories of language and meanings that were associated with
the Indigenous people. The goal of the schools was to remove the Aboriginal
people from the land. The Coast Salish people have tried resisting this
movement and retaining their beliefs and identities. They did this by
reclaiming some of the schools, so to escape the racism of the public schools.
The main goal was to keep their cultural differences and not mold into a single
culture.
It
would be very difficult to analyze research across the borders for many
different reasons. For one with
different policies and cultures, it would result in many different responses
that would be hard to measure. It would be hard to get an accurate measurement
of racism comparatively among the borders. “At one moment conditions appear
very different in Canada than they are in the United States, and you begin to
think in contrasts (Marker 111). The Coast Salish people that are across the
Canda-Washingotn State border are aware of the conditions on the other side of
it. According to Marker, a parent told him what some young boys told him that
after fostering boys, they told her that there were physical fights in the US,
and that in British Columbia, the children were trying to make themselves invincible
so no one will notice them.
