From these two videos, I have a better understand of American Indian history overview. Especially from video Pride 101, Dr. Duane Champagne mentions the removal policy of Native Indians, and because of the policy, the tribes have to move from Southeast to Oklahoma. These two videos show audiences a long history and policy about American Indians and how struggled they had been through in a native land. After I finished from these two videos, I can see many parallels between the struggles the Native American Tribes and my people encounter dealing with the U.S. Government “You can never be part of Indian. You are or you are not.
Professor Johnson N. American Religious Traditions 13 September 2007 Native American Culture Throughout the history of America, Native Americans and their involvement in the expansion of the western hemisphere have been represented in widely contrasting lights. Most of the time these natives have been misrepresented as instigating much of the war and fighting that occurred between the Native American culture and the foreigners attempting to settle in the land. Lately this false image has been corrected through movies like Smoke Signals and accurate authors writing about Native American culture such as Sam Gill, Joel Martin, and Robert Berkhoffer. The movie Smoke Signals gives explicit examples of issues discussed in many of Sam Gill’s, Joel Martin’s, and Robert Berkhoffer’s literature concerning Native Americans such as the significance of storytelling in the Native American culture, stereotyping, and the Native American sense of self and identity. Gill explains that story telling plays a significant role in Native American culture by stressing ideas of moral standards and wise choices as well as romanticizing people and events to make their significance emotionally real, which is impossible for writing to attain.
Yes, it is a negative issue, because the article carried different viewpoints of the natives. What do you think about this issue? The issue is very controversial, and I do believe that Shepard Krech does have some valuable points. Although there are some biasness in his judgments of the
Feryl Cutkomp Hist 331 Dr. Warren 02/19/14 Native American Influence on the Constitution Native Americans are looked over quite a bit in Revolutionary times in America. They are seen as very insignificant until the beginning of the nineteenth century, but some historians believe that they may have had a large amount of influence on the drafting of the United States Constitution. The Iroquois, to be specific, are the group of Native Americans that most historians like to look at for this proposal. They argue that the Iroquois had been practicing the very same ideals that are present in the Constitution for years before it had been written. The Iroquois had a type of government set up that is most commonly referred to as the Iroquois League.
An established contemporary artist, Scholder has utilized several contemporary and surrealistic techniques to exhibit his observations of the modern American Indian. In order to properly analyze Mad Indian No. 3 one must understand the history of the Native American and his long battle against the stereotypes that is a constant road block in everyday life as he struggles to co-exist in his world and the western one. The stereotype the western world places on the Native American has been long ingrained into our minds since the first encounter with Native Americans. While it has changed since the beginning or discovery of Native Americans it hasn’t truly matured and progressed with the reality of the modern Native American.
Sierra DeLander Mrs. Connors AP Language 21 December 2011 In the book “Rights of Man” by Thomas Pain, multiple examples of life in the late 1700’s are identified that still hold true to American values today. In that time government and people’s personal viewpoints were shifting. People came from different nations, who were different races, and who spoke different languages. Those people also had different religions and forms of worship. Thomas Paine stated what many people of his time had been thinking, “… the union of such a people was impractical.” At this point the government was changing to bring “cordial unison” of the American people.
For centuries, governments have had the power to identify what is a Native American. The significance of their authority is overwhelming, since never have any definitions been retrieved from a group of Native Americans, proving to be detrimental when attempting to find an identity. King describes two different but similar policies from the second half of the twentieth century: the U.S. Indian Arts and Crafts Act and the Canadian Bill C-31. These two documents changed the question governments have been asking from “‘Who is an Indian?”’ to “‘Whom will we allow to be an Indian?’” (King, 139). The first form of legislation only allowed “federally or state recognized” tribes or individuals to sell artifacts and label them “‘Indian made’” (King, 40).
Neither Wolf nor Dog: A Tale of Two Cultures Growing Together Jake Waters Introduction This book is taking place in present time and depicts a real presentation of how the Lakota Indians lived and accurately depicts the way that they presented themselves in every way. The Lakota Indians were one of the original Native Americans tribes, often known as Red Indians ("The Lakota Tribes of the Great Plains - The Official Globe Trekker Website.") While reading this book, I was interested as to the way that the Native American Culture worked; more specifically, the way that the family was run. For example, the book talked about how the mother was the “center of the family.” In American culture, the fathers are typically the centers of the household because of how they are looked up to and considered the center of the family. It would be interesting to live in a society where that role was placed on the mother.
And also, The Sociological Approach, anyone who is recognized as a member of a tribe or an urban Indian organization is considered a Native American; which is based on the acceptance of an individual as a Native American among his or her friends whom are Native Americans. More importantly, The Bureaucratic Approach is when a person is on the official list of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. In most cases, the later only happens when a land settlements occur, a member will present itself to obtain royalties and other benefits. Some of the most important policies that were imposed by the U.S. Government specifically for Native Americans are the Indian Removal Act of 1830, the Dawes Severity Act of 1887, the Wheeler-Howard Act of 1934, Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, and the Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968, to name a few. The Indian
Through Indian Literature we learn that the Native American Indians came across many things differently then we do today. They had many different customs and traditions that were passed on from generation to generation. The Native American Indians had many different views on creation legends, the government, and relations with others. Together these stories, “How the World Was Made,” “From the Iroquois Constitution,” and “Offer of Help” made it possible for us to discover what their input was. The Native American Indians had many different views on how the world was made, which they called creation legends.