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What source did you review and who created it? What perspective do you think it is meant to convey? Provide at least one specific example and citation from the M2 Online Resources to support your opinions.

  The web resource that I reviewed was The Museum of the Southeast American Indian. This resource was found on the University of North Carolina at Pembroke website (http://www.uncp.edu).  The University of North Carolina at Pembroke originally opened up in 1887 as a school for Indian’s of Robeson County, NC.  For more than a half a century the school only educated Native Americans but today the school is multi-ethnic.  The school has a Department of American Indian Studies along with the Museum of the Southeast American Indians.  After reviewing the information on the site it seemed as though the university is truly dedicated to teaching the history of their local tribe, Lumbee tribe. Per the website; The mission of The Museum of the Southeast American Indian is to educate and serve the public about the prehistory, history, culture, art and contemporary issues of American Indians, with special emphasis on the Native American communities of Robeson County, of North Carolina and of the American Southeast; to conduct scholarly research; to collect and preserve the material culture of Native America; to encourage American Indian artists and crafts persons; and to cooperate on a wide range of research and service projects with other institutions and agencies concerned with American Indians (http://www.uncp.edu/academics/opportunities-programs-resources/opportunities-programs/museum-southeast-american-indian/about-us).

The website has a section that is labeled; Because It Is Right, Stanley Knick, Ph.D.  In this section Knick talks about how the Lumbee should be recognized by the Federal Government and he goes on to prove that there is archeological evidence that American Indians have been in the North American Southeast region since the beginning of time and Knick states; There are no obvious gaps in the artifact collection from Paleo-Indian times through early, middle and late Archaic, early, middle and late Woodland times, and into the Historic period.  Indian people have always been here.   Knick lists archeological facts one after another to prove that the American Indians have been the original peoples of NC, and North America.  Besides the history from Knick, there are also various artifacts on display at the museum to represent the Lumbee’s history correctly. It seems as though the university is committed to continuing to educate people of the history of the Lumbee and keep their culture alive.  The school is also dedicated to helping promote pride in their Native American Heritage.  They state; The purpose of the Native American Student Organization at UNCP is to promote pride in our Native American Heritage, explore economic, political and educational opportunities of Native Americans and to promote the unification of Native students on our campus.
NASO strives to keep our heritage alive through activities and cultural support for all Native American students.


Why do you think these web resources where selected and put into this course and not others? What makes a quality academic website and do you think the website you reviewed is one? Provide at least one specific example and citation from the M2 Online Resources to support your opinions.

  I believe this web resource was selected and put into this course, as UNC Pembroke has been committed since their inception to educate Native Americans as the university was built on the foundation of only educating Native Americans.  Per UNC Pembroke the school; was established after legislation sponsored by Representative Hamilton McMillan of Robeson County was enacted by the General Assembly of North Carolina. The law, which was in response to a petition from American Indians of the area, established a Board of Trustees and appropriated $500 to be used only for salaries. The school was established to train American Indian teachers. The university has their museum that is there to display true Native American cultures and kept them in tact.  This web resource is valid and is here to present facts and history of the Native Americans in the NC area. Also I believe this web resource was used as the site states: With over 120,000 residents, Robeson County is one of the most diverse counties in the nation. This is the political and cultural center of North Carolina’s largest American Indian tribe - the Lumbees - since the 1700s, making this a historic and culturally rich place to study. 

Has the information you have read thus far changed, in some way, your view of native communities? Provide at least one specific example and citation from the M2 Online Resources to support your opinions.

After reading over the information on the UNC Prembroke website, I do not believe that this information has changed my view in some way of native communities as I did not know much about these communities.  It was interesting to me that there was a school that was founded for Indians that had evolved into a university that was committed to displaying the local history of their region’s tribe along with continually making strides to keep their culture alive.  Also, after watching the video, Telling Our Stories, on the site it was fascinating to hear these teachers talk about what a small community they had and how everyone was able to work together (Native Americans & non-Native Americans) to teach these children.  The Lumbee are one of the largest Southeastern tribes today and their county they reside in currently only has about 120,000 people.  They are a small community working together to keep Native American traditions alive and it’s wonderful to see.  Any type of community togetherness is a positive on the entire community.

Work Cited

Website; University of North Carolina Prembroke, http://www.uncp.edu

BECAUSE IT IS RIGHT, by Stanley Knick, Ph.D.
The Museum of the Southeast American Indian
(formerly the Native American Resource Center)
The University of North Carolina at Pembroke
Pembroke, North Carolina 28372

Comments

  1. UnknownDecember 14, 2017 at 2:21 AM

    I picked a region, (one which I live), to talk about. The initial information I drew from is from one of our texts, "Atlas of Indian Nations---Treuer". I thought I referred to this source as the module said I should. Thank you for your information. I will go on to look at the source you suggested and expound on my blog. For sure I could have dug deeper into the culture but did not want to overload the blog. I tried to add pictures, to no avail. I did not have any luck, which is what crashed my blog the first time around.

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  2. AnonymousDecember 17, 2017 at 8:02 PM

    My post is entered here, and for some reason it doesn't show as an original post. I chose the Smithsonian Institute for a resource of this topic because they are the most likely to have had the funding to research the topic as professional researchers.

    Blog 1: 12/9/2017

    Alice Cunningham was a middle aged researcher who went to live amongst Native American tribes in the late 1800's. She was an educated person from the Boston area, of Cuban descent, a teacher, and a women's rights contributor. Her studies and research were in the area of humanities and anthropology. Under the guidance of Fredrick Putnam, a director of Harvard's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, her interests in the studies of Indian culture grew. She taught Indian children at the Carlslile Indian School in Pennsylvania, and was awarded during her career with a Harvard Fellowship.

    While Alice lived and studied the Indian Culture, she kept a journal of her surroundings and environment. A novice in the study of anthropology and obervational studies, she gathered a very brief but candid replication of her perceptions when combined with the tone of her own learned paradigms. Her descriptive journal entries are not reflective of the Indian struggles with the white man. The title being "Fieldwork" does not seem as fitting for the content. Regardless, the accounts of interactions somehow helped rather than completely leaving the work of an Interior Department's employee to no further fundings for their purposes at all.

    Although the perceptions of Alice Cunningham were not as well received by the Native American tribes as she might have hoped, her contributions to the study of the Indian peoples allowed funding programs and Native American assistance. This quote relays the course of action put in place by allowing Alice to study and relay her findings:

    "Soon after she returned from her visit in the Midwest, Fletcher helped create and push through Congress a bill that allowed the Omaha people to claim title to their own land. Fletcher returned to the Omaha Reservation in 1883 as an employee of the Bureau of Indian Affairs to allot private property to the inhabitants of the reservation, and she carried out similar work at the Winnebago and Nez Perces reservations throughout the 1880s" (Smithsonian Institute 2017).

    Works Cited:

    Department of Anthropology. (n.d.). Retrieved December 09, 2017, from http://anthropology.si.edu/naa/home/naahome.html

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