Indian American

assimilate American Indians into white society. Andrew Jackson, however, passed a policy of removing Cherokees from their lands to the west of the Mississippi in the 1830s. The common goal of the two policies was to acquire Indian lands because the white colonists wanted to expand westward. Battles went on between the Americans and the American Indians, as one tried to take as the other tried to protect the lands. The policies the presidents passed was to take the lands of the Indians, but they…

Price and Our Lives: Collaboration, Native Voice, and Making of the National Museum of the American Indian by Jennifer Shannon, we can see the similarity and difference of the struggles in exhibitions. In Paris Primitive, Sally Price focuses on the extended analysis of the ambiguous relationship between “primitive arts” and “civilized eyes” and how the role of museums is…

interpretations regarding the impact that American Indians have made on the world. From medicine, to food, and even politics the American Indians have contributed heavily to the world’s society, but they get little credit. For centuries, anthropologists have been trying to assess and explain how American Indians laid the foundation for the world we know now. In this essay, I call attention to Jack Weatherford and his interpretation of the American Indian impact. Jack Weatherford is a cultural…

minority groups have to constantly combat injustices. American Indians were displaced from their homes and completely taken advantage of by colonist and had to undergo a new reality. Their religion, education system, tribal customs, and languages were all destroyed. In 1960s, American Indians began the Red Power Movement where Native youth began fighting for their rights. One of the most influential social and historical movements for American Indians was the occupation of Alcatraz. It…

before in the American Indian human rights movement. After a great struggle between scientific establishment and the Indian human rights group in 1990, the Native American Graves protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) was made (Watson, 2017; Fine-Dare, 2002). This was the most significant part of the civil and human rights quest of the American Indians enacted in the twentieth century. Grave belongings and skeletons that collected dust in museums during the period would come home as Indian…

and Siberia approximately 10,000 years ago. Scientist called those people “Native Americans”. The Native Americans developed their own living and surviving techniques according to the climate and the resources they had near them. The development of agriculture began 3,000 years B.C. in Central Mexico with the Indian corn or Maiz, and the semi-nomadic hunter societies highly increased. However, when the Native American groups met the Spanish, French and English explorers and colonists, everything…

nation. However, these changes were made not in considerate of American Indians who were on the land before their arrival. Therefore, a more fair proposal for building the new nation would be to shared the land and providing a hand to help benefit one another; the Europeans can educated the Indians schoolwise and the Indians can help the Europeans become more one with the nature.’ According to Stewart Udall in The Land Wisdom of the Indians, the two groups had different concepts of…

Disorders in Native Indians Issues surrounding the Native Indians, including American Indian, Alaskan Native and Native Hawaiian tribes, started when European settlers came to the Americas and American Indians were slowly pushed off of their lands. This first started to be a true problem in the early 1800’s when the white settlers were bringing in more black slaves and farmland started expanding in the South. Thomas Jefferson stated that though he believed the American Indians were equal, he…

The intended audience of the article “ The Indians' Old World:Native Americans and the Coming of European”, are the general public and historians because the article shows how a lot of people give more importance of American history after Columbus rather than before Columbus and criticize how historians know much less history prior to arrival of columbus in 1492. For instance, the author Neal Salisbury states that “historians now recognize that Europeans arrived, not in a virgin land, but in one…

Since the authors who explored cultural decimation through colonization mainly analyzed the situations of native Americans, native Hawaiians, and the Maori natives of New Zealand, these case studies are incorporated in this literature review to contextualize the authorsʻ arguments. Upon collecting literature on the methods that colonizers employed to acculturate the native peoples they came into contact with, each of the authors assert that these actions were initiated by the colonizersʻ…