Putting Learning Into Practice: The Indian Child Welfare Act Itumeleng Shadreck Dr. Wayne Moore Fall 2013 Historical Content Prior to European conquest, Indian populations in North America were mainly communal and self-sustaining societies with organized political structures, moral codes, and religious beliefs adapted to the particular environment they inhabited. There was also tradition involving child rearing practices and child protection. Discovery and settlement by Europeans radically changed life for local Indians. As Europeans strived to gain the natural resources and land occupied by the Native Americans, Indian policy primarily consisted of treaties.…
Dekanawida versus Edwards Authors from the same period often write their stories a lot alike, but there is always some differences. Hundreds of years ago the writing stile was was very different from today, but back then it was normal to write what we now see as weird. The documents "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”, and "The Iroquois Constitution” are perfect examples, but while being similar they are still different. How are these two documents alike? Both Documents use a great amount similes and metaphors in their texts.…
THESIS: Tongan and Iroquois political and social organization were different in several ways. Tongan political organization was by chiefdom, and social structure was through rank stratification divided by genealogical relationships of the primarily patrilineal line. The Iroquois’ political system was by tribe, and the societal organization was egalitarian with clans as matrilineal. Both are similar because of the heavy impact of European culture on both societies. European influence changed the gender roles, political structure, and the social hierarchy of each group.…
1. The reasons for the formation of the Iroquois Confederacy include creating a united front against invasion as well as keeping peace between and within the native tribes of present day New York, a strong example being Hiawatha and Onondaga of the Mohawk tribe. They had the goals of recapturing land, improving trade, strengthening themselves against British and French invasion, and sharing agricultural advances between themselves. The Iroquois Confederacy was able to reacquire some land however it was still being settled on by some colonists regardless. They established a steady trade with the French involving furs, the Dutch involving steel weapons, and the British involving common goods.…
The United States has had many thoughts about the Native Americans from 1810 to 1840. Some supported the Natives but others hated them. In document two written by Felix Grundy, he say’s the Native Americans know their boundaries. The Natives have many weaknesses and they know the United States could destroy them.…
A major reason for disputes between Native Americans and whites was over land, in which Natives such as the Cherokee were forced to give up miles upon miles of land. Not to mentions, white people’s presumption of being the superior race over the “inferior” Cherokee. However, it was only after the American Revolution and during the early 1800’s that the Cherokee Removal truly began. A key feature of the “expansion with honor policy” was the “civilization” program, first proposed by George Washington’s secretary of war Henry Knox.…
Native American response paper This response paper will be on the articles A Tour of Indian Peoples and Indian Lands by David E. Wilkins and Winnebagos, Cherokees, Apaches, and Dakotas by Debra Merskin. The first article discusses what the Indian tribes were and where they resided. There are many common terms to refer to the native people including American Indians, Tribal nations, indigenous nations, first peoples, and Native Americans. Alaskan natives are called by their territories like the Inuits or the Aleuts.…
Emily: Native Americans have always had strong relationships to land and many of these relationships have been shown throughout history. In 1794, Timothy Pickering wrote to United States secretory of war Henry Knox after months of trying to negotiate with the Native people, he wrote he had finally found a way to win control of the Ohio country. “Pickering secured a permanent peace with the Six Nations Iroquois and, equally important, he had received a cession of their claims to the Ohio Valley. In exchange, Pickering had returned to the Senecas most of the land they had lost under the 1784 Treaty of Fort Stanwix. The agreement Pickering and the Six Nations had reached, in the form of the Treaty of Canandaigua, ended a turbulent period of enmity…
Iroquois Confederacy The Iroquois Confederacy is made up of six tribes Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca and Tuscarora. Originally the Tuscarora's were not a part of the Iroquois Confederacy. Deganawida is said to have went to all five original tribes along with Chief Hiawatha of the Mohawks and made peace between those tribes. After that being done the clan mothers selected fifty chiefs who made up the council. Clan Mothers had a big part in the tribes.…
“‘They Are the Soul of the Council’: The Iroquoian Model of Woman-Power” written by Barbara Alice Mann stands in stark contrast to “The Federalist Papers,” written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay. One is a matriarchy; the other a patriarchy. One is characterized by peace and egalitarianism; the other by war and hierarchy. One is a form of governance that we now only read about in books; the other is one we are governed under. Here, the two texts are compared and contrasted to study the areas concerning the role of government in a society, the role of the people in a governed society, and the fundamental reason for governing – the nature of humankind.…
Discussion 1 The turn of the century in 1900’s, most remaining Native Americans had been forced, to leave their ancestral lands; it was truly a time of cultural assimilation (Assimilation through Education). Some chose to live on the reservations that were created by the U.S. government starting in the 1890s, while others spent their lives hiding from whites whom they feared would kill or capture them. Native Americans world as they new it naturally died out, from progression (Assimilation through Education), they needed to become a part of white society. There Indian language, religion, and art, would become something from the past to be studied or viewed in a museum, but would not be the products of living cultures.…
Due to their strong belief, they felt Native Americans could not be civilized until they accept the social practices of whites’ society, or superior society. The only way…
Native Americans were the first to settle in America and were defined by the English as indigenous people. The English labeled the indigenous people as “savages” and viewed them as an uncivilized culture, while they viewed themselves as a civilized culture. In Robert Warrior’s “Indian,” he argues the idea of the present absence of indigenous culture meaning their culture is what made up American culture and no one realizes it. In the “Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson,” Mary Rowlandson explains her feelings and experience while Native Americans held her captive. In the beginning, her perception of the world was defined as either savage or civilized.…
First of all, the structure and tone of the two constitutions are very similar. Both of their structures contains rules and laws. They explain the rules in a very clear way, allowing them to have a very precise tone. Although they are similar, they are also different. The Iroquois Constitution is more like a story.…
As Europeans expanded across the nation the status of Native Americans “changed from a majority culture of peoples living in sovereign nations to a disadvantaged minority living apart from mainstream U.S culture and subordinate to U.S law” (Shaw et.al.2015:31). The model of economic/political disempowerment applies to the Native Americans as seen through the Indian nations loss of land, power, and independence, all of which has had lasting consequences. An example of such model is the decline of sovereignty, in the beginning period of Sovereignty (1700s-1830s) native nations and the British/U. S government entered treaties as co-equals when exchanging demands, doing such over 400 treaties were signed between the groups which suggest that there was a respect for the native communities as being independent nations (Wk:3, Lecture 2). The period of sovereignty declined steadily as Europeans expanded westward which put white settlers into frequent contact with the native population. The white settlers greedily craved the natives land and resources which created conflict that they thought they could resolve with treaties but the growing U.S population proved to be too much to peacefully resolve with treaties.…