Indian Horse Lesson Plan

Describe how Saul and the other new children are greeted at St. Jerome's. How does this tie into the theme of forced assimilation and cultural genocide?

Saul and the others were divided based on sex and ordered to strip and get into washing tubs. There, the priests and nuns threw delousing powder on them and scrubbed their bodies nearly raw with harsh soap, to the point that it felt like they were trying to remove the children's skin. They then gave them ill-fitting uniforms to dress in. After, they cut the students' long hair. The youth were then made to wait in an office for the head priest and nun to arrive. Father Quinney and Sister Ignacia introduced...