#indian schools

[orphic-lover]

[theinsomniacindian]

Indian Chaotic Academia

Wanting to wear jumpers and hoodies but changing your mind after looking at the daily temperature

Scoring 97% in English in your board exams but your spoken English makes you sound like you've never studied it in your life

Messy yet (somewhat) intelligible handwriting

A weak spot for old Bollywood songs regardless of your personal taste in music

Chipped nail polish and lots of bracelets

Wanting to study in a park or a cafe but you can't as they're too loud and busy

Adrak chaha is the solution to everything

Muting the class WhatsApp group so you can read angsty fanfiction at 3 a.m. without alerting your parents

Vada pav and samosa>>>>

Buying several highlighters but still end up using blunt pencils to mark important study material

At some point, a B is the best grade you'll ever find in your report card

Reading the Mahabharata at the back of the class in the same way you would read a modern novel ("Nooo, why did he have to die 😭")

Coming up with ideas for study charts but never actually making them

Getting a lot of holidays and vacations thanks to the amount of festivals celebrated throughout the year

"Sir that's my emotional support gel pen brand that I've been using since fifth grade"

The poem you have to learn in your regional language class is actually your favourite childhood song

Rickshaw rides are better than any other mode of transport, change my mind (you can't)

Getting the 'Slytherin house' that always comes last in every school event

Only buying books from the second-hand book stalls because they have all the good ones

Waking up at 4 a.m. for last minute revision and getting disturbed every five minutes by trucks blasting out entire songs through their horns

[themoonsaid]

question: sara bought 4507658 apples and sold 57262 apples, calculate remaining apples

me while reading: sara bought इतना apples and sold इतना apples, calculate remaining apples

[yourdesicousin]

birthdays then: *excited to wear casual clothes to school and distribute candies*

birthdays now: shit, i'm getting older

[todaysdocument]

Letter to Superintendent concerning a possible outbreak of small-pox.

Record Group 75: Records of the Bureau of Indian AffairsSeries: Letters Received from Day School Teacher Clara D. True

In reply to: Department of the Interior, INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE, OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT. Espanola, N.M. Feb 2, 1904 Mr. C. J. Crandall, Supt U.S. Indian Schools Santa Fe, N.M. Dear Sir: There is no well-authenticated report of a small pox epidemic neared than Antonio and most likely there is no individual case in this vicinity. The Indian Geronimo Tofaya who reported a case Sunday still insists that a Mexican laborer en route home from the infected district stopped in Geronimo's house and that the Mexican had small pox. The Indian has been to me twice to have his children vaccinated. He himself has had the disease. He is one of the people who refused to be vaccinated some years ago and a little later took smallpox. He says he does not know where the Mexican is by this time. The doctor will be here today. I vaccinated myself and the housekeeper yesterday and as many of the children as I could. Very respectfully, Clara D. True.

[nihmisha]

The free space towards the end of the margin is what I loved the most about NCERTs. I would always make short notes in it. College books don't have that rizz.

[dilli-vali-girlfriend]

imagine the teacher asks you to draw the pic of an aadhaar card (don't ask why she did) and everyone's obviously like we don't remember what an aadhaar card looks like exactly and this guy just pulls out his aadhaar card from his bag and starts drawing.

LIKE WHO KEEPS AN AADHAAR CARD CASUALLY IN THEIR SCHOOL BAG

[lirxtix]

Exactly 20 days till the boards and i still have 65% of the portion left, pray for me

[l-wandering-etranger]

I don't think school was supposed to make you hope you get a chronic illness and need to be hospitalized for preferablly 2 months everyday you wake up.

[torivegafromindia]

Annual Day Season >>>> Sports Day

[daydream-comet]

I'm the only one in my class apparently who can go "oh fuck this shit" after missing out on their biology project, which was apparently today, where we, the entire class, were supposed to but ingredients with our own money, again, for some stupid ass fruit salad that we already had made last year for some pictures in a school magazine. And let's not talk about the horrible management system. Dear god. What is this, cooking class?? They haven't even taken us to the biology lab even once this term, and the lab was supposed to be our project.

Also not to mention it isn't supposed to be project week yet either, so this was pretty uncalled for. No other subject teacher has a announced any projects yet.

[boogiepopmeup]

INDIAN SCHOOLS MENTIONED!!!

Welcome to the Heard Museum! Go there! Sit with it! In this exhibit you hear the sound of the clippers.

But this is the one that always gets me. Deprive them of everything. Kill them. Give them a good “Christian burial,” don’t worry. They died well. They are better off a dead Christian that a filthy “Indian.”

The above is a MASSIVE quilt, one of my favorite “newer” additions to the Heard’s residential school exhibits. If you can, the Heard is a must see for Phoenix, Arizona attractions. This thing is massive and worth seeing in person. It features recreations (and actual artifacts from) the Indian schools and is full of recordings from the survivors and their offspring as well. As an Arizonan, I was born in a hospital on “Indian School Road,” but that’s not just a silly road name. That was an entire site of eugenics and destruction.

And then these same native Americans have some of the highest military enrollment numbers by percentage of any group. They loved this land. They saw it as their duty to protect it. They rose the flag on Iwo Jima, and this is how America treated them before and after it.

Love seeing something from TikTok and going “girlie that is literally what led to the downfall of the Papal States”

[theinsomniacindian]

I can never forget the time when I was in 10th grade and I went to school after a five day-long absence to find the whole of 10th grade talking about some guy in my class named Suresh.

I was really confused because there was no one named Suresh in our class and it was nearly the end of the school year so there was no chance of any new students joining my class. I wanted to see who this mystery student was and why was he so popular and why was everyone not terrified about the fact that he had recently died of blood loss.

Turns out, Suresh was an injured pigeon who had been living on a ledge just outside my classroom's window

[ssn-public-school]

Swami Vivekanand was hindu monk who attempted to combine Indian spirituality with Western material progress.

[todaysdocument]

“In the case now suspected the father stations himself by his little one and substantially says that he will fight to the limit to prevent any interference whatever.”

Letter re. diphtheria outbreak at Santa Clara Day School, 1/26/1903. 

Record Group 75: Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs

Series: Letters Received from Day School Teacher Clara D. True

Transcription: 

In reply to:

Department of the Interior,

INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE,

OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT.

Santa Clara Pueblo, Espanola, NM

Jan. 26 1902

Mr. C. J Crandall

Supt. U.S. Indian Schools,

Santa Fe, N. Mex.

Dear Sir:

It seems greatly like a confession of weakness to say I am unable to manage the epidemic now existing here, but I cannot further risk my life. I have been in the presence of the disease in every case when I would rather have charged up San Juan hill with the Rough Riders.

In the case now suspected the father stations himself by his little one and substantially says that he will fight to the limit to prevent any interference whatever. The grandmother is an old tigress whose house is a

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den of iniquity resorted to by law class Indians and Mexicans.

I must give the Governor and all respectable Indians of both parties here credit for being ashamed of the resistance. The Governor told the patient's father yesterday that it was an outrage to oppose your will in any way when you have been the only friend they ever had.

The Governor is really afraid to tell us to go ahead I think because the people we have to deal with are utterly mean and somebody would be pretty sure to get hurt.

I have done everything I consider my duty. I don't feel it necessary to get a broken skull nor to break one,

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which is about the only way out of our difficulty here.

A number of Indians from Santa Clara went to San Ildefonso. Indians from pueblos north of here went taking in Santa Clara en route both ways.

It seems impossible to enforce [underlined] adequate [/underlined] measures though we keep up something that passes for quarentine. The chief difficulty is that food is very scarce now and the people cannot be shut off from going to Espanola to trade pottery, work, and lug their daily apology for good. The infected district is under a rigid quarantine as I can get enforced.

The Doctor is faithful. He

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is nearly worn out, however, with Diphtheria everywhere. It appears to be universal in this valley, in the virulent form.

It is more than likely that I have blundered in this case as I am a new hand at this sort of thing. I am ready to take whatever of blame that is due me uncomplainingly as I guess I have bungled someway. If there is anything that I failed to do, it was the result of ignorance. Very respectfully,

Clara D. True