Indigenous resistance and racist schooling on the borders of empires: Coast Salish cultural survival

The main purpose of this article showed how the Coastal Salish people were affected by decisions made by Canada and the United States.  One decision that affected them was when Canada and the USA put up a physical border.  Prior to the physical border, the Coastal Salish people commonly traveled back and forth for reasons such as ceremonies, but a border with customs no longer allowed this.  The most alarming problem the Coastal Salish people experienced were the struggle they had with maintaining their culture while living under a government that was trying to rid them of their culture.  There were laws put up against their traditions, and their children were punished for things such as using their native language in school.  These two things show how common ethnocentrism is.  It is so common for cultures and people of a certain ethnicity to believe that not only do their ways work for them, but that others should oblige to their ways as well.