People For the American Way

Colin Calloway’s text is a collection of Native American events, as told through their perspective, during the colonial era. These Native American texts are a collection of letters, speeches and treaties. Their “voices” give the reader a better understanding of the differences in customs, cultures, and values from those of Europeans. Calloway’s introduction provides important background information about the early eastern North America and Canada habitation. The author’s includes the problems…

specifically, the video covered the struggles faced by the Native American population and the indigenous Hawaiian population. These two groups of people have had many injustices done to them. They faced similar types of discrimination and in both situations there have been attempts to take the culture and history away from these people. The video also focused heavily on the aspect of land. Both groups, Hawaiians and Native Americans, were settled on their respective land long before white…

Native Americans vs. Europeans Some Europeans walked onto the Native American soil with their head held high. Meaning they believed they were more sophisticated than the Native Americans. Others for example, John Smith, believed that the Native Americans could assist the Europeans, by teaching them their ways of their own land. Pocahontas, daughter of the Indian chief, believed there could be peace between the two different kinds of people. Within the first years of settlement on Jamestown…

often explore the histories of the living or, more famously put, the winners. However, many American history courses fail to mention the effects of settler colonialism on racialized groups, specifically the Native Americans, resulting in the deletion of their existence and stories. Through her memoir Bad Indians, Deborah Miranda thoroughly brings forth the continuous oppression and experiences of Native Americans by revising the version of U.S. history that many are taught with her…

expresses her agreement with Hitler’s way of thinking, saying that Hitler was the only one who had the “certain courage” to put his beliefs in place without being labeled a criminal. She believes that Hitler in his autobiography Mein Kampf that he gives a perfect description of the natural laws we live by. But what Weil doesn’t look at is the place he is coming from which is why I believe Weil’s response is incorrect, because Hitler’s way of thinking is the way of a criminal not just because he…

have their own tribes. For a lot of Native Americans, the Indian reservations hold a strong sense of community and culture and they feel like it is home. However, in many cases, such as in the case of Sherman Alexie in his personal narrative The Absolutely True Story of a Part Time Indian, Native Americans feel like the reservation system, even with strong family and community ties they have there, fails them. The reservation system often forces people to leave there home and community because…

Native Americans are still to this day facing the struggle of finding their way into relevance in western academia, a battle that descends from the systematic racism, imperialistic colonialism, assimilative and even outright genocidal history of Western invasion of the Americas. Native Americans are completely capable of making important contributions at the academic level but face resistance along this path. This is especially apparent in the branch of philosophy. In the western world,…

During the beginning of the 20th century, Native American tradition, art, and culture was suppressed by governmental bans of Native American customs. One of the commonly misunderstood forms of these Native American customs is dance, which plays a significant role in Indigenous tradition. It was viewed at the time as threatening and hostile as many referred to Indigenous dance as a “war dance” without understanding that each dance holds different importance's. The bans of these kinds of cultural…

Coody Cooper argues that the history of the American Indian belongs, first and foremost to that group, and secondly is being grossly misinterpreted. In the recent past, a Eurocentric view on Native American history has caused contention between public institutions and the indigenous peoples. According to Cooper, American Indians were presented as uncivilized and inhuman. These public prejudices led to a back lash lead by indigenous peoples to change the narrative set forth by “the…

A Tragic Version of History That Perpetuates the Myth of “Bad Indians” Native Americans have traditionally been depicted as primitive people who were educated and saved by the missionaries. This is in contrast with the true history of the natives’ oppression and exploitation under the mission system. The real story, of murder, rape, and loss of culture, is rarely ever told. Deborah Miranda, the author of Bad Indians, brings to light the intentional and systematic erasure of her culture and the…