Boarding schools for indigenous kids & after-school activities such as scouts were too often designed to manipulate & indoctrinate children. The training process was often fun -- all the more disturbing.
Children were corrupted "during their receptive years"...
The explicit "Americanization" strategy
below was operating in 1922, almost 30 years after the American military triggered
illegal overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii "with the active
participation of agents and citizens of the United States" (US Public
Law 103-150). Subversion by the colonizer.