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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.  I can not find anything in regards to an opinion while reading this particular article.  I believe this makes a quality academic source/website because it is objective.  With regards to my view of Native communities, my view has not necessarily changed.  What I mean by this is that I am not ignorant to the fact that the Natives have been treated poorly over the course of time.  The only thing that has changed about my view is that I am more sympathetic to their plight.  


Miller, Robert J. “American Indians & The United States Constitution.” American Indians & The
United States Constitution by Robert J. Miller, 2006, www.flashpointmag.com

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  1. Colleen ChioffeJanuary 28, 2018 at 4:28 PM

    I agree that it's refreshing to read an article that isn't opinion based. So often it's hard to know the real facts because the argument always seems one sided. I also agree that while I knew they were treated unfairly, I didn't realize to what extent. After taking this course, and reading all the materials, I am more sympathetic to their plight as well.

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  2. AnonymousFebruary 1, 2018 at 8:49 PM

    To contribute to the way that Native Americans were treated, I found in our studies that not only were they excluded from much of the decision making in the forming government; they were also the first slaves of the United States. There is so much time spent on the history of African Americans as slaves and that it is something of the past whereas slavery has been abolished but also evolved. The exclusion of Native Americans and the minimal time spent on what happened as a culture to the original inhabitants of America does not account for the time they were forced into slavery. To further the explanation as to why Indians were not used for slavery, it was because they were ill as a result of the plagues and other forms of illnesses brought with the settlers. The illnesses left them unfit for slavery - maybe to their favor. Then, it was the African American heritage of choice for the slave catchers to bring to America.

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