SUNY First Peoples 2017 Fall 2

I reviewed the video; Culture Clash for Indian Youth (01:38), from "The Geography of Hope: The West," a Film by Stephen Ives.   The video was about Indian youth that went to the Indian boarding schools.   These boarding schools were introduced to “help” the Native American children assimilate into American culture and were taught that their Native American culture was “barbaric”.   We have read about the Indian boarding schools and how the Native American children were not allowed to speak their native language, they could not wear the traditional Native American clothing or their traditional hair styles and had no contact with their family either.   The government made these camps seem as though they were necessary to try and help these Native American children become Americanized and live in the manor that everyone else was living in America.   When you read information on these boarding schools you can only imagine how terrible it must h...

The source that I reviewed is American Indians & The United States Constitution by Robert J. Miller.  The perspective of this article is how the Native Americans were not treated by the United States in the way that they should have been.  What is meant by this is that laws were passed to include various groups of people as citizens of the United States and the Natives were always left out when they were the most qualified to be included.  Mr. Miller offers this specific example in his article, “After the Civil War when citizenship rights were extended through the Frouteenth Amendment to ex-slaves and to ‘all persons born or naturalized in the United States,’ that Amendment still excluded individual Indians from citizenship rights and excluded them from being counted towards figuring congressional representation unless they paid taxes.”  I believe that this particular source was chosen because it is an objective article that is strictly limited to factual data....

The source that I chose to talk about from module 3 was “Turtle Talk”. This is a blog of Michigan State University about tribal law policies. The site has announcements and job postings for native American peoples as well as links to texts, dds, articles, and more. This is a selection because it is a real life blog of native people and through this site you can learn more about Native people. Mostly it is a place to learn of native law. My views have changed after visiting thus site because it is a good example of seeing native voices come together to spread information.