Indigenous Resistance and Rascist Schooling

In the article Indigenous resistance and racist schooling on the borders of empires: Coast Salish cultural survival Michael Marker discusses the integration of Native Indians known as Coast Salish into American and Canadian culture. The Coast Salish Indians lived along the borders of what we know as America and Canada, mostly in the Washington area. After British and Americans began taking their land, the two took a different approach to how they would educate them. The Canadians mixed them in with their citizens making them lose some of their heritage, while the Americans put them in schools alone. Both decisions I believe were based off of racism but in the end I feel like the American Indians have more to be proud about. My personal opinion would have been to leave them as they were before English settlers arrived and let them govern and educate themselves.