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.