The lack of motivation caused by years of not having a job and watching your family suffer in poverty is a condition that not too many of us are familiar with. “Native American Poverty,” by Tom Rodgers justifies the allegations that a large percentage, about 25%, of the Native Americans live in poverty. “According to the US Census Bureau, these Americans earn a median annual income of $33,627. One in every four (25.3 percent) lives in poverty and nearly a third (29.9 percent) are without health insurance coverage.” The lack of money has become a huge component in the dismemberment of the culture that the Natives so lavishly submerged themselves into, and the picking up other undesirable traits such as drinking. The
Nancy Postero's ethnography, Now We are Citizens, chronicles the struggle of the Indigenous people of Bolivia. For several years, the Indigenous people were not afforded the same rights as the rest of the population. They were viewed as savages and barbarians, and therefore not considered as citizens. The prejudices of the elites that controlled the government caused them to be completed excluded from society. The Indigenous Indians were not allowed to partake in government elections, and their land was taken from them also.
Many colonists died in early Jamestown, was it because of the environmental problems, the lack of settler skills, or maybe it was the bad relationship the colonist had with the Indians? The lack of skills by the settlers played a huge role in the many deaths of the colonists. In May 1607, 110 settlers arrived in Jamestown. Of the 110, only 82 had known occupations, and 47 out of the 82 were gentlemen (a gentlemen was a person of wealth who was not used to working with his hands)(Doc. C).
Unlike Europeans' belief, the Indians had a complex and dynamic history in America long before 1492. Since there are no accurate facts about their way of living and new discoveries are made daily, we can not make any exact assumptions and everything has to be treated provisional. Plus, many native people reject the scholars' explanation of native origins. Some people see the native's way of living as living in perfect harmony with each other and with nature, until the first Europeans set their foot on the American land. Europeans considered them as being “uncivilized”, but I believe they were always civilized.
How they are exhumed and disinterred, sold either to be displayed as artifacts next to other exhibits in institutions or museums, or used to perform biological research. Harjo is far-reaching with this issue, that she expresses how people dig up these Indian remains for less money than they are being sold and used for, without consent of there relatives. And how there is no clear evidence, if the remains of these American Indians are still being used for appropriate biological research or being collected for other gain. 2. What is Harjo’s position on this issue?
Lastly, it created a relentless toward the Native Americans, who were pushed out of the way for white settlement or were devastated by the diseases that the Europeans brought with them through trade and contact. Document A also showed how Jefferson imagined farms mainly farming for subsistence with maybe a little for sale. With the Missouri Compromise in Document C, there were many states that prohibited slavery. With the use of slave laborers on the ample farms of the South, the farms produced a handful of crops mostly used for profit which wasn’t what Jefferson wanted,
Before the revolution, the peasants had little to no power within the government and were oppressed by the rich; this event helped put an end to this and significantly changed their lives. However, this revolution came with a price. Execution, emigration, violent deaths – these were some of the fates people, both peasant and nobles, met during the revolution. This event led to much bloodshed. Many nobles were exiled and the revolution resulted
It defined what Mexico was as a society.r Poverty persisted among the vast majority of the population. Mexico’s social structure had a direct effect from the wars. In the late 1820’s the New Government issued a decree expelling all Spaniards from Mexico, which deprived Mexico economy of an important source of capital. The central foundation of economic activity in Colonial Latin America was Indian labor. Wars, diseases, and the acquisition of status led to the mixing of races.
It also addresses the challenge post structuralism poses to the study of history. Post structuralism is a critical theory that denies any truth can be directly understood and stated clearly. Tompkins speculates, and I agree, that Indians’ perceptions of events differed so radically from those of European settlers’ that “conflict was inevitable”. That statement explains why this is such an ongoing debate. The second article I read was written by a Native American named, Sherman Alexie.
Unfortunately, this label remains today, and we will never know what this race of people would be like today if they were never “discovered”. Today, however, Native Americans are still under significant control by the government, and are often forced to choose assimilation