Kowabunga, douche.

Education For Extinction:
American Indians and the Boarding School Experience
by David Wallace Adams

Classroom

"Probably more significant than the specific content of the science curriculum was the deeper message being transmitted. Traditionally, Indian children had been taught to look upon nature in ecological and spiritual terms. To know nature was to recognize one's dependence on the earth and its creatures. The world of nature was inseparable from the world of the supernatural; gods and spirits inhabited the earth, sky and lakes just as every living creature--the deer, the eagle, the mountain lion--possessed its own distinctive spiritual essence, which, through rights and ceremonies, might be incorporated into one's being as a sustaining source of personal identity and power..."

Sounds like Halloween to me.

"...In the end, the Indian's knowledge of the physical and natural environment was inseparable from how they approached it--intimately, harmoniously, and with reverential respect for the mysterious. Whites, on the other hand, objectified nature. Western science was ultimately the search for "laws of nature" and scientific principles that, once established, could be put to the service of technological progress. Nature was to be controlled, conquered and, finally, exploited."

Kind of like how the Indians themselves were to be: controlled, conquered and exploited.

"Science too was an expression of the white man's power."