The Lakota Indians are called the Native Americans they are considered a first nation of North America. In this video, many people are living in poverty and abandon homes. In the beginning of the video, a Lakota activist that lives on the Indian reservation explains that they have no rights meaning that they are unable to stand up or speak up for themselves. People that do the wrong things are not punished because the reservation has no rights for their citizens. In the video, the activist explained that they have no rights which make them feel like they are in a prison.…
The plight of American Indians in the hands of the white regime has been characterized by suffering and confusion. The Ishi performance tells the story of Ishi, an Indian man who visited a small town in Northern California. The appearance of the Ishi inspired mixed feelings. Some people were amazed, some feared and some pitied the confused Ishi. I was surprised that most of the people reacted as if they had seen their biggest fear.…
Native Americans started coming to North America, but while they were there whites started coming and taking over their land. Natives had to adapt to many different things going on around them. Native Americans looked for new opportunities in the west but they lacked money and it made their experience bad. They were dealing with people not liking them and taking advantage of them.…
Students from Ajou university visited to the Native American Museum on Thursday. Coordinated as part of the summer JHU-SAIS, the speaker from Native American Museum spoke with students about Native American. The speaker focused on all-round of Native American. At first, the speaker showed about flags of Native Americans. She explained some of flags like what is the stars in flag meaning.…
After reading the text provided I came to the conclusion that the relationship between the Native Americans and the United States was in constant turmoil. The text is littered with many treaties made with the Natives and the effect these had on all parties involved. The westward expansion caused numerous battles and debates among the politicians and tribes. A quote from the article A Shawnee Argues for an Untied Indian Resistance, 1810 states “After mistreatment of the Native Americans by Presidents Jefferson and Madison, Tecumseh, a Shawnee, tried to organize the Midwestern Indian tribes into a united political alliance to thwart the steady advance of the white settlers.” This quote shows the strained relationship between the Natives and the…
The living conditions on the reservations are often referenced to third world country. In 2011, the native’s suicide rate is 1.5 times greater than the general population. Suicide is there second cause of death. As a national average the native American’s child abuse is two times greater, however, rape incidence with women is two in a half likely than national average. Even though, alcoholism is within the youth, gang membership controls the youth as well.…
What do you make of the irony that women were often treated quite well in Indigenous traditions and yet, today, Native American women are the group of women that experience the highest incidence of domestic violence? My reaction: It upsets me to think about the violence that women are experiencing throughout all cultures. For Native American women to be experiencing the highest domestic violence I feel at fault. If it weren 't for colonization and the “whites” invading the Native American territory the concept of women being less than men would never have been introduced to the Native American culture.…
My dad always told me stories about many Native artifacts that he found in the past when he found in the past, when I was a little kid. He showed me many arrowheads, axes and poetry. Even in my grandfather's old shop he had many artifacts on the wall. There was so many artifacts I did not know what they all was. Sometimes my dad would take me places to go find artifacts.…
Large poverty populations, large populations not connected to sewers and life expectancy over five years under the average Americans sounds like we would be talking about a third world country but these are the living conditions experienced by Native Americans residing on Indian reservations today. This is a huge problem because today the United States is home to 5.2 million Native Americans and around 22% of them are currently living on tribal lands. So many Native Americans are struggling just to survive on reservations “The U.S. Census Bureau reports about one of every four American Indians lives below the poverty level.” As Mark Martin discusses in his article “Native Americans: A Forgotten People?” Native Americans statistically experience…
The power of cinema has been remarkably significant in the world because of it’s ability to take you into worlds were anything can happen. You watch a movie where reality is often pushed to the side and imagination takes over. Movies have the ability to also tell truths about real world happenings that are not so easily talked about, allowing the viewer to understand what is actually happening. But, with power comes great responsibility. Hollywood’s representation of Native Americans has been rather skewed basically miscommunicating them across this particular medium.…
Another issue that the Native Indians face is lack of education. They aren’t informed of many issues, causing them to face problems in the future. For example, employment if they have no education level whatsoever they won’t know how to make a living are actually, live. The reservations lack school supply support, noting that the government supplies our local schools and maybe they should do that to some reservations because of the fact they are so limited. They also lack sufficient staff and if a teacher was there to teach, who would know how long it would be before they…
Disparities in health status between the American Indian minority and other groups in the United States have persisted ever since the beginning of European contact. Indians face many problems that do not affect the rest of the US population. The federal government is responsible for handling Indian affairs for the benefit of all American Indians. Nevertheless, the government has failed to live up to this responsibility. As a result, Native Americans on reservations are among the poorest and unhealthiest communities in the entire United States.…
In the movie “the exiles” , Kent Mackenzie illustrates the urban life of a group of young American Indians living in Los Angeles after urban relocation. They struggle to overcome many obstacles and try to survive in the city, yet they all hold their own visions for their city life. Many American Indians left the reserve, hoping to find a good job, a nice home and education for their children (Rocky Mountain PBS).…
Similarly, when the first colonizers arrived at the North American continent, they concluded that America was deserted and empty. However, they realized that they had company when they figured out that the land had been inhabited for a considerable amount of time by the Native Americans. Since the colonizers did not make an effort to live peacefully amongst the Native Americans, the following generations lacked the trust of the Native American Community and knowledge on maintaining good relationships with the Native Americans. Unfortunately, the inability to solve this problem has became a common issue among American Native Americans and European Americans throughout the history of the United States. As a result, a series of historical events…
1.2. Statement of the problem There are many acute problems of the tribes people in our country lag woefully behind others in development and the tribes continue to be among the weakest and the most exploited section of the society. Before and after Independence, particularly in the context of special provisions in the Constitution for the protection and promotion of the interests of the Scheduled Tribes, various plans and programmes were designed to promote their development.…