Describe Booker's experience with red Indians?

Booker T established good relationships with his Indian students. He also shares some of the Indians' struggles: "The things that they disliked most, I think, were to have their long hair cut, to give up wearing their blankets, and to cease smoking; but no white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man's clothes, eats the white man's food, speaks the white man's language, and professes the white man's religion" (37).

Washington found there was little difference between colored and Indian students in terms of learning trades and mastering academic studies. He was also delighted at the positive relationships that developed between the two, with many colored students taking on Indian roommates to teach them English and "civilized habits" (37).