How Does The Imbalance Of Power Affect Fairness And Justice

Power can be viewed as the ability to influence and/or control others. Another flaw about reservations is the fact that they are not totally governed by Native American representatives. The U.S. government actually has tight control over the majority, if not all, reservations (Perry, 2002, p 233). This tight control has left the Native American population powerless in terms of self- regulation. Despite the fact that Native American government do exist,

Typically American culture views the United States actions towards Native Americans as justified for many reasons. There are three major sociological perspectives, and all of them can be applied to the Native American conflict one way or another. The first of these perspectives is the functionalist perspective, and it’s simple when you just think about it from the outside. However, as go deeper realize that it’s not as

This article, from the popular web magazine Insight, seemed to be focused toward government officials and supporters against the harsh way Native Americans are treated, although not much prior information needs to be known to understand this article and even possibly agree with it as well. The author’s name is Kelly O’Meara, and she seems to have extensive knowledge on governmental affairs, including military justice and

Native Americans have been oppressed by numerous entities including the government, businesses, and white settlers

When most people hear of Native Americans, they cannot help but think of elaborate headdresses, red skinned warriors, and lively dancing. Although these aspects of Native American culture are fascinating, more important is where they fare in our society 's past and present. Restrictive laws and acts such as the Indian Removal Act, the Indian Reorganization Act, Fort Laramie treaties, and the Trail of Tears forced Native Americans from their lands. When settlers and the American government saw the resistance of Native Americans to forced assimilation, they resorted to racial discrimination and relocation to reservations. This history of discrimination has fueled calls for the United States government to pay reparations and the return of Native Americans to their indigenous lands.

From its birth, America was a place of inequality and privilege. Since Columbus 's arrival and up until present day, Native American tribes have been victim of white men 's persecution and tyranny. This was first expressed in the 1800’s, when Native Americans were driven off their land and forced to embark on the Trail of Tears, and again during the Western American- Indian War where white Americans massacred millions of Native Americans in hatred. Today, much of the Indian Territory that was once a refuge for Native Americans has since been taken over by white men, and the major tribes that once called these reservations home are all but gone. These events show the discrimination and oppression the Native Americans faced. They were, and continue to be, pushed onto reservations,

Vance (1995) stated, “For nearly 500 years there has been a very oppressive, dishonest and manipulative message being voiced by the dominant white Angelo culture towards Native Americans, This has caused a great distrust, anger and conflicting attitudes for the Native American community” (p.1).

Over the course of time in our country, many groups in our society have experienced being set apart from sustainable communities. Among them are the immigrants, the homeless, the African Americans, those with physical or mental disabilities and the Native Americans. According to McIntosh (1988), “Whites are taught to think of their lives as morally neutral, normative, and average, and also ideal, so that we work to benefit others, this is seen as work which will allow ‘them’ to be more like ‘us’ “ (p. 1). Unquestionably, this was the case back in the nineteenth century when the “White” people thought it

It is clear that throughout many years there has been an exemption of treatment when talking about the Native Americans in the United States. Supposedly every individual is endowed with the right of freedom, equality, and of seeking for happiness, but Native Americans were treated irrationally. From the discovery of America, to the founding fathers and settlers, the treatment and attitude towards Native Americans has been unsettling at best. The colonial policies toward the Native Americans affected the Indians in ways that changed their relationship between their tribes and the new nation. Cabeza de Vaca, Roger Williams, Cotton Mather, and Benjamin

American Indians are ignored from their cultural values, and were looked upon as lower than the white

Native Americans in the United States have reported to come from many different tribes. American Indians are likely to experience violent crimes at more than twice the rate of all other U.S. residents. The rate of violent crimes committed against Native Americans is substantially higher than any other minority group in the United States. Yet, little or no attention is paid to them. According to information collected by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), American Indians are likely to experience violent crimes at more than twice the rate of all other U.S. residents.

Many instances of life has terrible misunderstandings involving different ways of how we further see how everything should and should not be, and U.S. History is no exception to this phenomenon. The Indian reform movement of the late 1800s provides many examples of cultural misunderstandings and how unsuccessful the outcomes can be. As were seen in the actions and misguided beliefs of the white activists of that time, good intentions are often not good enough to create positive and effective change. The supremacist attitude that the reformers had towards the American Indian culture would only add to their experiences of injustice throughout the “development” of the New

One of the darkest subject matters in United States history is the government's policy toward Native Americans. When European settlers first landed in North America they depended on Native Americans to give them food, trade for skins, and teach them how to gather food. Without the help of friendly Native Americans the possibility of any colony surviving, much less thriving, would be virtually impossible. However, once the colonies were self-dependent the colonists felt like they had a God given right to the land that the very people who helped them survive lived upon. Since that time Native Americans have been pushed off

Checks and Balances, put simply, is the process by which the federal government maintains equal power throughout the three branches (Legislative, Judicial, Executive.) The branches can keep themselves in check in several ways, such as: presidential veto, impeachment, overridden vetoes, judicial review of local, state, and federal laws and regulations. Checks and Balances just keeps any branch from maintaining too much power within the federal government.

“Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race” (King 119). Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., mentions the injustice received by Native Americans from their cultural antithesis in his novel, Why We Can’t Wait. Accordingly King alludes that the faux Americans will never culturally understand the Native Americans as they see them as the inferior. Naturally this misunderstanding between cultures has presented immense disadvantage to the Native Americans, especially in the justice system. In the United States, Native American’s receive disproportionately harsher sentences from predominately White courts that lack the cultural empathy to understand these cases. This lack of justice is examined in N. Scott Momaday’s House Made of Dawn, where the protagonist, Abel, a Pueblo