Fighting for a fading culture</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="Fighting for a fading culture"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="Fighting,for,a,fading,culture"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">20-09-2005</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>Fighting for a fading culture</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/img_news/img_ut2HXlsTtkcPvLZNBPo0_0.jpeg" align="left" vspace="5" hspace="5" ><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Wisconsin, USA (Green Bay Press Gazette): Maria Hinton, 95, recalls being punished as a child for speaking her native tongue. One of more than 100,000 Native Americans throughout the United States sent away to government-run boarding schools in the early 1900s, Hinton, an Oneida, was separated from her family at age 3. <br>The schools aimed to assimilate Native American children into Western culture by removing them from their traditional homes and ways. The children often were confined with bread and water and no toilet facilities if they spoke their tribal language. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/news/archive/local_22486568.shtml" target="blank">www.greenbaypressgazette.com/news/archive/local_22486568.shtml</a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show