Native American gambling enterprises

mission is? Official website of Bureau of Indian Affairs tells that, their mission is to “enhance the quality of life, to promote economic opportunity, and to carry out the responsibility to protect and improve the trust assets of American Indians, Indian tribes, and Alaska Natives (“Indian Affairs | Who We Are”).” This leads us to the fact that by law, to become an Indian, BIA should provide you with the card for your recognition as an…

privately, or publicly. In the United States, millions of Native Americans on reservations are stifled from receiving the much needed dental care they deserve, and the consequences are damaging to their health and prosperity. Tribal sovereignty is the right of an independent authority to govern tribal members. In regards to dental care, this is the right to train, license, and employ professionals. Right now this system is not working. Native Americans are faced with oral ailments at a…

Indians that is. Native Americans were predominantly living west of the Mississippi river and were not going to be susceptible to American society. So this might have caused some disputes with the Americans and Natives. However, the most important and valuable gain was the Port of New Orleans, and the Mississippi river. With the Port of New Orleans it secured trading routes, considering how the port was one of the largest ports in the gulf, plus it prevented any interruption in American finance…

Our country has a very rich history, or so we are taught. We are taught that english immigrants battled native american savages and the british for their freedom, but what they don’t mention is the fact that the native americans were only protecting their land from invaders. History books tell the story of how wealthy plantation owners helped build our economy. However they don’t mention that our economy was built off the backs of hard working slaves. This is the history of our country and what…

In The New Jim Crow, author Michele Alexander suggests that mass imprisonment of African Americans in the late 20th and early 21st centuries established a totally new racial caste system. This new system was strikingly oppressive and this novel explores the topic of racial injustice in America’s legal systems today. Alexander proves her claim by referring to racial problems in the past, such as the War on Drugs and Civil Rights. The War on Drugs correlates to past problems. The first claim…

1. The Boston Massacre was a result of American colonialists who harassed and intimidated the British military in regards to the Stamp Act. This act violated the rights of the American colonialists because it was passed without their consent and did not benefit them. Several people were injured and killed in this attack between the British military and the colonialists. Many would say that this was propaganda to promote opposition against the British rule. The Boston Tea Party was also a very…

here we will speak of two. I will start in order of who was first, the Native Americans. Since the beginning of exploration to our continent the Native Americans have suffered at the hands of unjust stereotypes and media portrayal. From stories of how the west was won, with its heroic cowboys and bloodthirsty savages, to the pamphlets and spread rumors and justifications to slaughter and eliminate a “Godless” threat. Native Americans have been subjected to harsh stereotypes in order for a few to…

are not the same culture as before, many traits and ideas have tested time and still live in the culture of Americans. These traits are either positive or negative. The traits influence the culture of Americans. The first people of America were Native Americans, and they were a foraging culture (hunters and gathers) and a culture that has a connection to nature spirituality. The Native Americans are story-tellers that depicts nature with having a big role in the story. The next people to…

article, Double Divide, by Meizhu Lui explains how the government has taken land from the Native Americans. Native Americans like African Americans have been groups subjected to crucial harmful acts by the government. For instance the Homestead Act. This Act allowed for land to be transferred to whites from Native Americans. It gave 160 acres of land to farms from Native Americans for free. Native Americans were kicked out their land and forced to move cruelly by the government. After the…

the missionaries held towards both Maori and Native Americans (specifically the Cherokees.) In doing this, they successfully reveal some aspects of constructions of ‘race’ in the early nineteenth century. Both documents expose the view that the missionaries held of the indigenous people as ‘savages’ needing civilizing, a predominantly ‘white’ lens with an ethnocentric bias. Though this was the case, the missionaries did view the Maori and Native Americans in a more favourable light than others…