Indigenous Resistance

This article talks about all the troubles the coastal Salish people have had to go through in order to preserve their traditions.  The villages are split among two different countries and the village people are constantly crossing the border to perform different ceremonies and such.  The government was trying to remove the culture and abolish their old ways.  The main way they would try and do this was with the use of the public schools.  Salish languages were prohibited in public schools.  The Salish people got around this by having elders mentor a couple students at a time, or through the use of boarding schools.  Spirit dancing was often outlawed, so they would keep it secret.  Many measures were taken in an effort do abolish the culture of these aboriginal people.  The native people who have been divided by a border and faced many challenges have resisted and have successfully, so far, been able to preserve their culture.