Ojibwe's Resilience in Upholding Their Indigenous Language: Karen Louise Erdrich’s Antelope Woman

Abstract

Native American education has emerged as one of the most pressing challenges Ojibwe’s facing the world today. It has historically been employed against American Indians as a colonial weapon. One way to characterize the American Indian Boarding School system is as a covert conflict, a conflict to achieve total cultural dominance. In order to reduce tribal populations and eradicate tribal cultures, it is employed as a weapon to separate and isolate youngsters from their families. This paper "Ojibwe's Persistence in preserving Native Language: Karen Louise Erdrich's Antelope Woman" emphasizes how American Indians continue to face educational inequalities due to the mainstream White population's disregard for their culture. It highlights the fact that a large number of Indian American families in America rely on public education as a means of achieving more possibilities and upward mobility. By introducing tribal values into mainstream schools, it offers hope that not only help American Indian children make educational connections, but it can also improve the learning environment for all students.