In the article Civilize Them with a Stick of Mary Crow Dog she says, “It's almost impossible to explain to a friendly white person what a typical old Indian man is. Boarding school seemed to affect the Indian child who was suddenly thrown there like a little creature from another world, helpless, helpless, disoriented, desperately and instinctively trying to survive and sometimes not surviving the everything” (p 191). about how light-skinned people have better privileges than dark-skinned people. The school principal doesn't even help the Indian students against the white bullies because all white people are known to be from rich families and so the school must treat white skin better than Indians. Since Indians are considered a lower class, the school believes that they do not deserve the same treatment as white people. Whites can pay for the best service, but Indians are too poor not to be able to afford school services. At school, a white person's food is different from an Indian's. Crow Dog also says that "girls who were almost white, who came from what the nuns called 'nice families,' received preferential treatment." » (p. 196). Many white families are so wealthy that they can comfortably afford special services for their children in school. For this reason, nuns are more favored by white children than by other skins. The nuns let other people do the work while the white students have nothing to do. White students at this school have more freedom than other students. Ultimately, the school displays institutional racism towards Indian students because they are poor and don't have a lot of money like white people.