Alaska Native Allotment Act

Alaskan Native History Alaskan Native Indians are people that migrated to North America approximately 1,300 years ago from the Eurasian continent. They had developed intricate cultural lines and pioneered advanced methods for surviving the fridged Arctic climate using nothing but what was available in nature. For this reason, the Alaskan Natives developed a deep cultural bond with the land that was also rich with materials useless to them such as gold and oil. This situation along with abundant levels of wild game and “unclaimed” territory brought fourth foreign settlers in search resources to feed their more technologically advances societies such as Russian colonist from Siberia in the 1750’s. The Russians course specifically the…

Symposium held at Rasmusen Hall, hosted by Maria Williams on November 18, 2016. Professor Maria Williams taught Alaska Native Perspectives A206 on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4:00 pm until 5:15 pm. She spoke of many subjects that pertain to the history of Alaska and the impacts of colonial contact. These impacts included: Segregation, Conversion to Christianity, Statehood in 1959, and Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971, just to name a few. Then there was The Comity Agreement of 1874.…

My classroom has three life rules to remember. 1. You are kind, you are smart, and you are important. This is a quote from the movie, The Help (2011). I have changed the quote to be grammatically correct. Many of my students very low self-esteem. The studies indicate Alaska Natives and American Indians have suicide rates 3 times the national rate of all races combined. (Herne, 2014) My students know that I am someone they can talk to if they need to about suicide. The district requires all…

the discoveries that have been made we would be much farther behind scientifically, but after that research has been done, should the bodies/remains be returned to the original home? This has been a heavily debated issue in that researching this bodies can only give so much information but, returning or reburying the bodies can hinder the use of further information in the future. “Many Indigenous peoples in Australia, New Zealand, southern Africa and elsewhere possess similar moral and religious…

that the Kennewick Man neither belonged to Native Americans nor related to the tribes in the Northwest areas of Pacific region. These two groups advocated for the repatriation bones because they believed they were related to the Kennewick Man. The main law that warranted the return of the bones to natives was the Native Americans Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). However, the outcome of the scientific analysis rendered null the application of the NAGPRA rules. This led to the…

Native American 's Treatment In The 1800s Have you thought of all the land that is the now U.S? Have you thought about how exactly did they acquire the land? No one thinks of the people who lives were giving or taken for the expandtion of this great nation. The treatment that was endured by the Native Americans for more land, by greedy white settlers. Although the white settlers desired more land for settlement,the treatment of the Native American harsh and unjust. Bureau of Indian Affairs: …

Since the arrival of white settlers the Natives lost not only their lands, but their identities, culture, beliefs, and freedom. In 1928, the Institute for Government Research, at the request of the Secretary of the Interior, organized a team to gather information and report the conditions of the natives across the country, this become known as the Meriam Report (Galloway 2012). The realities of the laws and policies enacted by Congress, such as the Dawes act, showed how horrific the Natives…

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…

The Fourteenth Amendment guarantees all Americans equal protection of the laws. Throughout the history of the United States there has been discrimination against specific groups of people. Americans have discriminated against Native Americans, African Americans, and Chinese Americans, and Japanese Americans in the past. There is not a time when a national emergency justifies creating laws and rules applicable only to people of a certain ethnic, racial or religious background. Hundreds of native…

reservation in North Dakota. The novel is a true window to the cultural life of Chippewa tribe. It is set during the historical period of the Dawes Allotment Act of 1887. The novel is presented in nine chapters. It narrates the life of Chippewa community living in North Dakota between the winter of 1912 and the spring of 1924. Each chapter is identified by year and by season, and the Chippewa name of each season. The date serves as markers of the plot’s linear progression, and the naming of the…