Growing Up Native American Research Paper

Current American society is constantly affected by events from the past, but sometimes what society thinks is in the past is not so far behind. The way Native Americans were treated historically continually plays a part in current American society. Due to the racism and stereotypes carried throughout society the Native American cultural circle is constantly under fire.

Popular culture has shaped our understanding and perception of Native American culture. From Disney to literature has given the picture of the “blood thirsty savage” of the beginning colonialism in the new world to the “Noble Savage,” a trait painted by non-native the West (Landsman and Lewis 184) and this has influenced many non native perceptions. What many outsiders do not see is the struggle Native American have on day to day bases. Each generation of Native American is on a struggle to keep their traditions alive, but to function in school and ultimately graduate.

From as early as the time of the early European settlers, Native Americans have suffered tremendously. Native Americans during the time of the early settlers where treated very badly. Europeans did what they wanted with the Native Americans, and when a group of Native Americans would stand up for themselves, the European would quickly put them down. The Native Americans bow and arrows where no match for the Europeans guns and cannon balls. When the Europeans guns didn’t work for the Europeans, the disease they bought killed the Native Americans even more effectively.

What if everyday in America there was not an action someone could take because someone of an opposite race sexually assaulted or domestically abused that person? Often news outlets only focus on major even in cities or towns, but never the reservations. With the lack of awareness of the number of rapes and domestic abuse victims on reservations, at large society is saying America doesn’t care due to reservations having sovereignty. Even with new laws signed into place by President Obama to deal with the rape and abuse problems to Native American women, that come from non Native Americans, the problem with this is it’s a pilot only on three tribes (Culp-Ressler,1).It is said it will expand soon, but how soon? America is not known for being

After the arrival of the Spanish into the New World,the Native Americans lives changed drastically during the 15-16th hundreds. It brought major changes,politically,socially,and economically. The Natives were obviously vulnerable and submissive towards the Spanish.These events that I’m going to talk about shaped and changed the lives of many of Native Americans.It's the most unforgettable history of all times because it was the most unbelievable story.

The Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) was formed in 2006. This government agency, previously known as the Office of Indian Education Programs, controls the direction and curriculum for all Indian schools as well as managing the funding. Three legislative acts developed the roles of the BIE. The Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975 and The Education Amendments Act of 1978. The only more recent legislation was The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. It is the mission of the BIE to provide quality education to all Native Americans by focusing on the spiritual, mental, physical, and cultural aspects of the individual within his or her family and tribal or village context (U.S. Dept.

Deborah Parker, a former member of the Tulalip tribe’s board of directors, now a speaker and activist for social justice for indigenous women, says that there is no domestic violence education in reservation schools. By not teaching what is happening in these kid’s tribes, the cycle of abuse may continue, and more and more generations of Native women will have to endure the abuse. The cycle will be broken if more people are aware of the issue. First, there was the National Domestic Violence Hotline with additional hotlines focused on certain areas of abuse, now there are hotlines specifically aimed at helping Native American women along with Alaskan Natives. These resources help in many ways, whether it’s just communication and therapy, or helping these women out of their situations if needed.

(Continued from 1832) Andrew Jackson was reelected.Pontotoc removed Chickasaw from their lands.The Wyandots,The Sauk,The Fox,The Prairie Band of Potawatomis,The Shawnees and Delawares,The Kaskaskias and Peorias,The small tribe of Stockbridge,and The Piankeshaws

The American Indian/Alaskan Native people have a heritage that is rich in culture and history rich in conflict, strife, and triumph (Indians.org, n.d.). The American Indian/Alaskan Native have come a long way compared to their ancestors, however, the culture continues to struggle today with disparities such as poverty, poor health, demographic and social challenges, and a severely limited health care system due in part by lack of funding for health

American Indian children face a number of significant challenges. Like many other oppressed populations, many are born into communities that experience widespread of poverty, substance abuse, domestic violence and chronic health problems at much higher rates than non-Native communities. Historically, US government policies have tried for years sought to destroy some characteristic of the American Indian culture, dominion, and way of life contributed greatly to these tragic circumstances.

There are 529 federally recognized Indian Nations in the United States (National Congress of American Indians, 2003). The United States Constitution currently recognizes these Indian Nations as sovereign nations; but this was not always the case, especially regarding education of Native American students. According to PBS, a program of assimilation education began on the reservations. This was in the hopes that the assimilation of the children would translate to assimilation of the parents. However, this didn’t work in the way that was hoped, so education reformers pushed for Native American boarding schools. Children were taken from their parents (with no legal backing other than assimilation) and sent to boarding schools, where they were

Archaeologists destroy the sites they excavate. This has been one of the major criticisms that has been lobbed at archaeologists for years. When archaeologists excavate a site, the common practice of digging and removing artifacts is sometimes frowned upon by the communities in the surrounding area. In the 1800’s people’s views of indigenous communities where reprehensible to say the lest “American Indians were held to be inferior to civilized men in order to rationalize the seizure of Indian lands, and that eventually, racial myths grew to supplant any other myths about Indians as a justification for waging war on Indians and violating their treaties.” (Watkins 2000: 6) This trend continued into the 1900’s, but the degradation that indigenous and to some extant non-indigenous communities have experienced is still present to this day, but it is not as prevalent as it was in the past. The things that were decimated where Indigenous graves, sacred places, and cultural materials. The practice of looting grave goods has been a problem since Europeans first came to the Americas “The looting of the Native American past began with the very earliest European presence in North America, starting earlier than many would think.”

The English acted harsh towards the natives, lying, stealing and killing the natives. Firstly, the English gave the Indians a false gift with small pox killing many of the Indians. This was the first of many harsh acts twords the natives. At first the Indians attacked because the English were invading their land but eventually it became peaceful. Only when the English started to get greedy and lazy did the push the Indians inland and steal and ravage their community's. The Spanish intertwined themselves into the Indians community to remain peaceful, and allowed the Spaniards to spread Christianity throughout the Indian community. The English drove the Indians because they kept wanting more from the new land. They ravaged the Indians stealing

The Native American tribe, the Mandan, settled in modern day North and South Dakota where they carried on with their unique cultures and lifestyle. They also share a nation with Hidatsa and Arikara tribes. The Mandan settled in areas with a climate that ranges from very warm summers to extremely cold winters. This tribe was not nomadic and settled in a certain place for their whole life.

All over the world, there are indigenous people/communities. Many things bar us from being familiar with them, to start with, they are too insecure to associate with other people in the world, they take any attempt to get close to them as an intrusion and end up reacting violently to secure their freedom. These guys usually have their means of protecting themselves from an intruder.