Indigenous Resistance and Racist Schooling on the Borders of Empires: Coast Salish Cultural Survival

In this article I learned that there are two places, British Columbia and Washington State inhabit a region where they negotiate the contrasting policies of two different empires. This articles shows educational policies that contrast each other across the Canada and US border.  Some of the community strategies for resisting assimilation have included reclaiming government boarding schools as a way to escape the racism of integrated public schools. Coast Salish efforts at decolonising education have concentrated on the maintenance of cultural boundaries, challenging neoliberal assumptions about history while defending treaties and land claims. Both British and American colonialism required categorising, dividing, and confining Aboriginal people.