The Native America Indian Tribe; the Cherokee Nation, is the second largest tribe in the United States of America. In 1985, Wilma Mankiller, a Cherokee woman, was elected as the first female chief to serve the Cherokee Nation. Mankiller was a fierce woman who fought to preserve the Cherokee Nation. She lived during a time of the civil rights movement and struggled to claim equality just as those in the American Deaf community have fought for civil rights. The struggles between the White Americans and Native Americans are fierce, just the same as the comparisons of the hearing world and Deaf world. We have oppressed these two minority groups and forced them to change their lives, normalize them, and live our way of life.
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Two important factors for the Cherokee Nation and American Deaf community are associated with the person’s identity. These are: the native language and individual names of the person. Language identifies what culture a person belongs to and names identity a person within their native culture. The names of the individuals are characteristics of the person. For the Cherokee Nation, they regard their names as essential parts of their personality as do Deaf Americans name signs relate to the person’s personality. Both cultures believe names are vital to his or her …show more content…
They are; Andrew Jackson, a US President; Christopher Columbus, a man who discovered America; and Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone. White American’s today celebrate Columbus Day as an historic event that led to the discovery of the land we claimed and know as America. However, the Native American’s remember this day as the day that set forth a chain of events of oppression, genocide, and the “Trail of Tears” on the Cherokee Nation. A day they would remember as the beginning to an end. Andrew Jackson is an important US President American’s yet the Cherokee Nation’s view on Jackson are different as they are disgraced by his power of removal of the Cherokee lands. For Alexander Graham Bell, the hearing world is thankful for his invention of the telephone. However, Bell was behind a lot of motivation in whipping out Deaf culture and American Sign Language in contributing to the oral methods forced upon the American Deaf community. For the reason, the Deaf community has an appalling view of
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Two important factors for the Cherokee Nation and American Deaf community are associated with the person’s identity. These are: the native language and individual names of the person. Language identifies what culture a person belongs to and names identity a person within their native culture. The names of the individuals are characteristics of the person. For the Cherokee Nation, they regard their names as essential parts of their personality as do Deaf Americans name signs relate to the person’s personality. Both cultures believe names are vital to his or her …show more content…
They are; Andrew Jackson, a US President; Christopher Columbus, a man who discovered America; and Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone. White American’s today celebrate Columbus Day as an historic event that led to the discovery of the land we claimed and know as America. However, the Native American’s remember this day as the day that set forth a chain of events of oppression, genocide, and the “Trail of Tears” on the Cherokee Nation. A day they would remember as the beginning to an end. Andrew Jackson is an important US President American’s yet the Cherokee Nation’s view on Jackson are different as they are disgraced by his power of removal of the Cherokee lands. For Alexander Graham Bell, the hearing world is thankful for his invention of the telephone. However, Bell was behind a lot of motivation in whipping out Deaf culture and American Sign Language in contributing to the oral methods forced upon the American Deaf community. For the reason, the Deaf community has an appalling view of