Don't Let the Sun Step Over You: Ch. 5 & 6

She talks about her time spent at St Johns boarding school. She liked the boarding school because there was always something to do and she liked looking after the smaller girls. She didn't go home during her first summer break because she was upset that her mother had remarried. Once she got to know her stepfather she liked him and said he was like a father to her and her siblings. St Johns doesn't sound like it was quite as bad as some of the other boarding schools. The kids were still not alowed to speak their own language or wear their own clothes. Eva attended St Johns for about 5 years. She did not lose her identity as an Apache as other children did, but she did not go to boarding school until she was about 12 or 13 and went back home at 16.

1.Eva Watt story dislpays the hardworking nature of the Apache people and their committment to family and to each other. None of the history I've previously learned about Apaches does not imply this. It is the typical stereotypes of native people being uncivilized and even violent(which is very far from the truth).

2. I did not know that Apache children were treated so badly at boarding schools or that children were forced leave their homes and give up their culture and their lives: that they were forced to become "white". This is pretty disturbing: childrenbeing taken away from everything they know due to racism, ignorance and intolerance, and probably also to continue to take native peoples land. All this frm the hands of people who considered themselves to be civilized and advanced.