If we look back in time, we find many cases where some practices are violations of human rights or simply barbaric. In the United States, for example, we can remember the times when women were not allowed to vote, when slavery was the norm, and before the civil rights movement took hold. The truth is that there are many barbaric cases that contribute to the history of the United States. However, the question remains: are we somehow barbaric now? This question can be linked to Andrea Smith's writings in “Boarding School Abuses and The Case For Reparations”. Smith raises important ideas about the period in which Native Americans were forced to be assimilated by the United States. An important analysis by Smith comes through the use of K. Tsianina Lomawaima's quote on dispossession: “An ideological logic explains domesticity training more fully: it was dispossession training in the guise of domesticity…” (37). We can connect the idea of ​​dispossession to the ways in which the United States seeks to assimilate people who do not conform to what they think represents an “American.” To understand the purpose of Smith's quote, we must understand what he means by this term. use of the word “expropriation”. In any common dictionary, we simply get “The act of putting out of possession,” but this definition doesn't really tell us what Smith means by his use of the quote. We can analyze what is “dispossessed” when Smith writes about what Native Americans went through during their forced assimilation. Through history and Smith's writings, we can tell that assimilation was the norm, to the point where people got away with disturbing quotes like this: "Henry Pancoast, a Philadelphia lawyer,...'We must either slaughter t ... ... half of the paper ...... prevented bilingual education. This means that the many students who spoke languages ​​other than English were forced to conform to learn and speak only English proposal was repealed, but the point is that people are still trying to “assimilate,” “Americanize,” and destroy culturally, the same way people in the United States tried to destroy Native American culture by taking away their culture native language. In this way, the United States has not really deviated from its barbaric idea of ​​what it means to be “American”. In conclusion, America still tries to strip people of their culture and identity through methods such as coercing everyone to learning only English or even practicing color blindness and ignoring the many disadvantages minority groups have under white privilege. In this way, the United States continues to force people to strip away their identities and values.