New Mexico

Since 1494 the Native Americans have been called savages and were treated unjustly by the Europeans. The Europeans assumed that they could go to America and take what they wanted, without caring whom was already living on the land. The Europeans also thought that they were superior over the Native Americans. The Europeans were much more advanced with their weapons compared to the Native Americans, and the Native Americans were frightened by the loud noises that the weapons created and the…

It is what I want to do in the future. I think being involved with as much as I can has opened up the door to opportunities for me. It has given me a new perspective on everything life has to offer. I am not the perfect kind of girl with high standards of achieving but I consider myself a hard worker. I started high school with two goals in mind and that was to maintain above an A average grade throughout…

The Sioux are a tribe of Native Americans that used to live in the states Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, and Nebraska, but thanks to the government now they live mostly in South Dakota. They are divided into three groups based on language. There are the groups that speak Nakota which are the Yankton and the Yanktonai. They live mostly in the states North Dakota, South Dakota and Iowa. The groups that speak Lakota are the Sans Arc, the Teton, the Oglala, the Two…

had about minority/immigrant groups, Sal Osio’s counter argument to his theory, and how Gordon Allport’s theory of intergroup contact can be connected to Samuel Huntington writings. To be explored also is how Samuel Huntington’s theory is neither new nor old and is still being implored today by many in the disguise of patriotism. First to be discussed is Samuel Huntington’s…

HISTORY In 1848, the victorious United Stated acquired a large part of Mexican territory, along with it, thousands of residents who were offered American Citizenship as a part of the treaty ending the war. Legal citizenship for Mexican Americans was one thing; equal treatment turned out to be quite another. Many would lose their land to unfamiliar American laws, or to swindlers. With the loss of land came the loss of status. HERNANDEZ VS. TEXAS In 1950, Pedro Hernandez, a migrant cotton…

Marji and Tayo’s decisions are heavily influenced by their geographical background. Due to Tayo being of mixed race descent and growing up on a Native American reservation, Tayo’s views of the world were similar to many indigenous peoples beliefs. Growing up, Tayo was taught many ceremonies. One day Tayo and Rocky come across a dead deer in the Silko describes that, “Rocky slit his throat blood spilled over the grass and into the dirt; it splashed on his boots… they sprinkled the cornmeal on…

Government agencies hold valuable knowledge about the country as a whole and the actions that are needed to meet the needs of citizens. The most familiar form of administrative organizations within the government are departments, and within those departments are many bureaus. One of the agencies located within the executive departments is the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). The BIA is part of the Department of the Interior which preserves and manages the United States’ natural resources and…

Article 2 Middle-class Latinos "step it up a notch" as communities thrive Summary : In the mid-1980s, the town of Downey, California didn’t have much of a diverse community. Immigration was not as popular there and with Latinos, only a few families were stationed there. Over the last two decades, the town of Downey and even other small cities near Los Angeles has been transformed to what many Latino families call home. Generations of Latino immigrants have filled the lands of Downey over the…

helping the U.S in the Vietnam War, we will take you anywhere you want in the world” and without hesitation my grandfather said “Take me to America.”. So he went off to fight in the war, eventually gotten shot in which resulted in his discharge to New York City. Without a penny in his pocket the man searched around the Big Apple to find himself a job that was nothing other than the Cleaners, where the most he would be getting paid a couple quarters a day. Every single moment of this man’s life…

the 1960s had little interest in recovering Mexican-American prehistory. It was not until the 1970s Mexican-American anthropologists began to recover their culture’s prehistory. Menchaca also shares that Mexican-American indigenous past is both in Mexico and the Southwest and have roots tracing back to Aztlán. She argues that Aztlán may not have been the true site of the origins of many Indians. She believes that Indians historic roots trace back to a history of conquest and not migration. She…