The motto "Kill the Indian, save the man" is referring to the feeling that the Native American Indian is a savage and is not civilized. That in order to save this person, you must completely annihilate the culture that these kids were raised in, and tell them that everything that they've learned is wrong, and in a lot of instances, treat them like animals they have to domesticate(I've read a lot of books and diaries on this subject). The reeducation effected them by taking all they knew to be true, and changing their beliefs and themselves, to fit someone else's expectations so they can accept them for something they never were and never trul