United South & Eastern Tribes, Inc.
After looking through several of the M3 Online Resources I decided on the website for the United South & Eastern Tribes, Inc. This intertribal organization was established in 1969 between 26 tribal nations. What interested me most on this site was Native Knowledge 360- Framework for Essential Understandings about American Indians. This is a joint endeavor of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), Native communities and educators nationally. The purpose of the group is to alter the way teaching about American Indian history, culture and contemporary living is done in K-12 curriculum.
Available at this link: http://nmai.si.edu/nk360/pdf/NMAI-Essential-Understandings.pdf
is a workbook that provides information to educators on ten different categories of instruction about American Indians. Some of the more interesting categories included American Indian Cultures providing an overview of over 2,000 tribal groups, their unique cultures and ways of life. Another was People, Places & Environments which is information provided about Native American's relationship and interactions with their land. Individual Development & Identity informs about clan systems, rites of passage and individual roles in tribal society.
Continuing down the list is Power, Authority & Governance concerning tribal governments and government to government relationships with the United States. Science, Technology & Society informs about American Indian knowledge that can contribute to solutions to global challenges based on long term interaction with the living Earth. Finally Civic Ideals & Practices shows how practices of citizenship have always been a part of American Indian societies.
One of the benefits provided by this organization is from the Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI). This is a group of private financial institutions that provide affordable lending to several different tribal groups. This includes tribal enterprises, Native American enterprises and tribal entrepreneurs who need assistance to help individual business owners. The funding creates jobs that will pay a competitive wage and job training and development.
Lastly there was news about the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina who have filed a law suit against opioid makers and distributors. Their claim is that these individuals new the potential problem of opioids and that they created the current crisis. In 2016 in Johnson County, NC for every 100 residents 106.6 prescriptions for opioids were dispensed. The Cherokee Nation was not financially prepared to pay the high cost of treatment for individuals addicted to opioids.
Available at this link: http://nmai.si.edu/nk360/pdf/NMAI-Essential-Understandings.pdf
is a workbook that provides information to educators on ten different categories of instruction about American Indians. Some of the more interesting categories included American Indian Cultures providing an overview of over 2,000 tribal groups, their unique cultures and ways of life. Another was People, Places & Environments which is information provided about Native American's relationship and interactions with their land. Individual Development & Identity informs about clan systems, rites of passage and individual roles in tribal society.
Continuing down the list is Power, Authority & Governance concerning tribal governments and government to government relationships with the United States. Science, Technology & Society informs about American Indian knowledge that can contribute to solutions to global challenges based on long term interaction with the living Earth. Finally Civic Ideals & Practices shows how practices of citizenship have always been a part of American Indian societies.
One of the benefits provided by this organization is from the Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI). This is a group of private financial institutions that provide affordable lending to several different tribal groups. This includes tribal enterprises, Native American enterprises and tribal entrepreneurs who need assistance to help individual business owners. The funding creates jobs that will pay a competitive wage and job training and development.
Lastly there was news about the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina who have filed a law suit against opioid makers and distributors. Their claim is that these individuals new the potential problem of opioids and that they created the current crisis. In 2016 in Johnson County, NC for every 100 residents 106.6 prescriptions for opioids were dispensed. The Cherokee Nation was not financially prepared to pay the high cost of treatment for individuals addicted to opioids.
Thank you for bringing this resource to attention. I am particularly drawn to the Seneca Nation of Indians New York area where I found myself reading the entire site with enthusiasm! I find it so heartening that the Seneca are engaging in so many aspects of not only personal recovery from past trauma, but also working for sustainability of the future. I would absolutely love to see the tiny homes that are being built - wouldn't it be awesome if they made them for sale outside of the tribe as well? The Amish have a similar thing with the selling of cabin kits and other outbuildings, etc. The style makes them unique and very sale-able. I am also impressed with the tribal Montessori immersion school - my daughter went to Montessori for 3 years before going to public school. The Montessori plan helped her be ahead of her age group in math, reading, and writing. So I can see that graduates of the Seneca Montessori will be far ahead of their age peers who attended public schools. The whole idea sounds very promising, with encompassing fisheries, moving towards energy independence, restoring indigenous plants, cultivating native animals, you name it. It really sounds like a modeling of an intentional community that, to me, sounds like an excellent example of how culturally strong a community should be.
ReplyDeleteThe Nation’s environmental consciousness is rooted in its concept of responsibility to seven generations, says Seneca member Jody Clark, transportation director for the Nation. “Any decision you make has to stand the test of time.”
Hello. Did you see the question "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 M3 Online Resources to support your opinions." Best, Nn
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DeleteI think this resource was included for this course since it is good example of an excellent source for the members of the 26 tribes that are a part of this organization. It was also designed for teachers to provide them resources to improve their educational programs for the students in their classes. Lastly it was a good resource for a student to find out new information about the tribes in the South and Eastern US. I also think it was a quality academic site for the reasons mentioned and the link that I included in the original post that will take you to the workbook for teachers is an example of this.
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ReplyDeleteThe review source used for this blog entry was posted in our list for Module 3, and is titled "2008-2011 Case Law on American Indians" this web source gathered from the archives of Thomas Schlosser, who is a legal representative of tribes as an attorney and is a tribal property expert. The court cases are public information once they are filed in court and the gathered records are from Westlaw with revisions made. The perspective is not a narrative perspective as it is the summary of a case which has already been petitioned in court. There isn't a 1st person, omnipotent, or other perspective which is relaying the outcome of the source record. If there is any perspective, it may possibly be the decision maker's perspective as that is what is ultimately the deciding factor in each example. An example of the source content is:
Madison County v. Oneida Indian Nation, Docket No. 10-72. Case decided on Jan. 10, 2011. The Oneida Indian Nation passed a tribal declaration and ordinance waiving “its sovereign immunity to enforcement of real property taxation through foreclosure by state, county, and local governments within and throughout the United States.” The judgment is vacated and the case remanded to the United States Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit. (Schlosser 2018)
This web source is content which has something to do with the content of the course. That is why it is used as a web source for the course. Other web sources would not have anything to do with the content of this course, therefore other web sources were not listed for the purpose of supporting the correlating module. As a student, the request to relay why the instructor has chosen a specific web source as opposed to other web sources is a question which is odd. Really, students do not debate why an instructor has selected a web source, they just use the assigned web source and correlate the content for the purposes of an assignment. To ask why we, as students, think that someone chose a web source is a question that is not necessary and probably has nothing to do with the content of the source. An example cannot be arrived at regarding a reason or why someone thinks that a selection for a web source has been made. The content of this particular web source is that of court rulings and court cases with the assigned docket numbers which show where the continued legal battles about jurisdictions, territories, and property which is belonging to the tribes continues in court proceedings.
The view of the native communities has not changed throughout the related content and assignments since introductory modules, however the view regarding Indian peoples as captured slaves is something that I, personally, did not consider in previous teachings of the Native American people. Unlike African Americans who had a war which defined the need for the slaves to be freed from the slaveholders, the Native Americans did not have a war which freed them from slavery. Instead, the historical content which is relative to this study shows that the Native American slaves were replaced with African American slaves when the African slaves were brought to America. The web source content for this blog is applicable in that the same type of rights or lack thereof continue and are debated in the court system. The concept of a tribe and jurisdiction which protects the tribe is used in some of the proceedings to say that because they are employed or work for a tribe, that the same rights to healthcare and work-related government rights do not apply to the workers. An example of this is found as an employee who worked for a tribe sought to have the same rights regarding discrimination and work-related rights for persons over the age of 40. The employee was not given the same rights as the employer, Cherokee Nation Distributors, had immunities. (Schlosser 2018)
Work Cited
Schlosser, Thomas. (n.d.). Retrieved January 13, 2018, from http://www.schlosserlawfiles.com/