In the article Civilize Them with a Stick by Mary Crow Dog, he says: "It is almost impossible to explain to a sympathetic white person what a typical old Indian boarding school was like , how it struck the Indian child suddenly thrown there as a little creature from another world, helpless, helpless, disoriented, desperately and instinctively trying to survive and sometimes not surviving at all” (p 191). light-skinned ones have better privileges than dark-skinned ones. The school principal doesn't even help the Indian students to fight white bullying because all the whites are known as wealthy families, so the school must treat white skinned people better than Indians. .Because Indians consider themselves a lower class, the school thinks they don't deserve the same treatment as whites. Whites can pay for better service, but Indians are too poor to not be able to afford school services. At school, food for a white person is different from that for an Indian. Crow Dog also says, "Girls who were almost white, who came from what the nuns called 'nice families,' were given preferential treatment." (p. 196). Many white families are so wealthy that they can easily pay for special services for their children in school. For this reason, nuns are preferred by white children more than other skins. The nuns let others do their homework while the white students don't need to do anything. White students in that school get more freedom than other students. Ultimately, the school represents institutional racism against Indian students because they are poor and don't have as much money as white people