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Situated on an isolated section of Hualapai Indian Reservation, the first is a two-story brick building originally known as the Truxton Canyon Indian School. It opened with the coming of the 1900s, before the town was renamed Valentine, and served children of the Hualapai, as well as the nearby Apache, Havasupai, Hopi, Mohave, Navajo and Papago. While commendable that the U.S. government would provide an education for the tribes, the children's schooling was in large part utilized in the widespread assimilation of Native Americans into white culture, especially with regard to western religion. According to obviously biased records, the school was integral "in teaching the Word to many hundreds of young people who would, in turn, carry the Gospel back to the many tribes they represented," though admittedly parents were resistant, which made it difficult to separate the children from, as the scholars put it, "their primitive methods or nature." |
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The Red Schoolhouse, on the other hand, remains accessible along with its two outhouses. Given the condition of the floor, though, entry may result in an express trip to the basement. And the rats welcome the nourishment. |