His100Week7

.docx

School

Southern New Hampshire University *

*We aren’t endorsed by this school

Course

100

Subject

Arts Humanities

Date

Dec 6, 2023

Type

docx

Pages

Uploaded by MajorSnowHedgehog43

Part 1: Creating a Research Question: The quality of research often depends on the quality of the question driving it. It is important to understand how personal opinions, perspectives, and historical sources all play a part in developing and examining a research question. Complete the following steps to discuss how you developed a strong research question about your chosen historical event. When developing a research question you have to be careful about your own personal beliefs, values, and assumptions. The reason being you can curve your research without even really knowing it if you enter into asking a question with your mind already set and not open to learning and exploring. The best way to go about studying a topic is to make sure you are as clinical as possible. Get reports that are from both sides of the fence, make sure to read all the different POV’s and not just the one you feel more attuned to, and to make sure you stick to statistical evidence as much as possible, when possible. Using facts to back up your research will help keep your own personal views out of the paper. 1. Discuss the significance of your historical research question in relation to your current event. A. State your historical research question and explain the connection between your current event and your question. My research question is Have events like the Wounded Knee Occupation made a strong enough social change for the Indigenous people of America to be seen as their own nation? My current event is the Dakota Pipeline Access. My current event relates to my research question because it will help show if there has been enough change in societies eyes to see Native American as their own nation of still an extension of the USA. By using this even I can show how the Government

and bigwig companies treat Native American’s when it comes to their lands they own, their beliefs, and values. 2. Explain how you used sources to finalize your research question. A. Identify the specific primary and secondary sources you used. B. Discuss how evidence in these primary and secondary sources strengthened or challenged the focus of your question. The sources I used to improve my research question is an article by Ronald Sarro called Sioux Faces Hill Probers, Is Adamant. This article was published in a news paper called The Evening Star and Daily News back in 1973. This source really opened my eyes towards the hate and disbelief towards the Natives American’s. I had originally wanted to know why Native rights have not changed, but then I realized this had to do more on a social level. Change had not been created with the Native Americans, progress at that time has started to be made across the board with women’s rights, civil rights, black rights, but none were made towards Native rights. This article helped show the mindset of the people at that time. My secondary source is an article by Bruce Johansen called Wounded Knee Occupation that was published in the Salem Press Encyclopedia in 2022. In this article Bruce introduces the ideas of corrupt officials and sheds a bit more light on the Native American’s issues that ultimately gave way to this occupation, and several others. When reading his article, I started to understand why Natives had planned and executed the occupation the way they did. I had started to understand that they didn’t have a whole lot of choices to fix this issue. They were not being seen as their own nation; the Government was dictating how money awarded to them could be used by appointing officials who probably didn’t have their best interest at heart. When reading another one of my secondary sources D’Arcus used a quote that really brought me to my question. “The eyes and the ears of the whole universe are now focused on Wounded Knee. And little Wounded Knee turned into a giant world. Wallace Black Elk, Lakota Medicine Man (in Anderson et al., 1974 : 110).”

D’Arcus shared in his article, Contested Boundaries: native sovereignty and state power at Wounded Knee, 1973. This shows that the Natives considered when, where, and how to bring light to their issues. They took time into planning to bring as much attention to their social issues, injustices, and broken treaties so that it could hopefully have the biggest impact for them. He continues to solidify my thoughts by stating “a virtual army of both domestic and international television and print reporters also surrounded the site.” The Native Americans took this into consideration when planning this event and knew exactly how to get the best outcome possible. Through a few errors in previous attempts, they learned how society in America depended on news and used that to make it work for themselves. This brought about the question, has there been enough change within society that American people view Natives as their own Nation now? Part 2: Building Context to Address Questions: In this part of the project, you will examine the historical context related to your historical event. The context will be like snapshots that capture what was happening in history that affected the development of your current event. 1. Describe the context of your historical event that influenced your current event. A. How does the context of your historical event help tell the story of what was happening at the time? How might this historical event connect or lead to your current event? Right before the Wounded Knee Occupation USA entered into peace talks with Vietnam to end the war. AIM, a American Indian Movement group, had came up with a plan to hopefully get them enough media coverage to show the world the issues they have faced, and were still facing. By taking advantage of the timing they were able to get a large about of coverage. I believe that they seen how the war with Vietnam ended and were hopeful that there could be peace talks and peaceful outcomes in their favor as well. The historical context is connected with my current

event, The Dakota Pipeline Access Protests, by showing how the Native American’s are still having to fight for their rights, and beliefs within a nation that doesn’t seem to recognize them as their own nation. In the Access pipeline the Native American’s concerns were not took seriously about the environmental analysis. In both events the USA did not consider the Native people whether it was with the breaking of treaties or usage of their lands. The Pipeline access protests show the inequalities still being suffered by the Natives. You can see a harrowing similarity in the two events even though there is 40 years difference between them. 2. Describe a historical figure or group’s participation in your historical event. A. This person or people must have directly participated in the event you identified as it was happening, not after it. B. Use specific details from your primary and secondary sources to demonstrate how the person or people participated in the event. 3. Explain the historical figure or group’s motivation to participate in your historical event. A. Consider why the person or people were motivated to get involved in the event. One historical group that participated in the Wounded Knee Occupation was the Oglala Lakota Nation who was led by Russel Means and a few other leaders. They took control of Wounded Knee in 1973. They seized Wounded Knee in hopes of bringing light to the treaties and trespasses made by the US against the native nations and the issues that were still arising with having white people control the money and reservations in which they lived on. Ronald Sarro states in his article Sioux Faces Hill Probers, Is Adamant that “Means was unyielding calm and confident as he talked about the “second battle of Wounded Knee” and the rigid position of his Oglala Sioux brothers.” Means was one of the members of the AIM group that lead the

Your preview ends here

Eager to read complete document? Join bartleby learn and gain access to the full version

Access to all documents
Unlimited textbook solutions
24/7 expert homework help