Indian Students And Adolescents Of Alcatraz Analysis

Sherman Alexie, in “Indian Education” tells his experiences in school on the reservation. Some of his teachers did not treat him very good and did not try to understand him. In his ninth grade year he collapsed. A teacher assumed that he had been drinking just because he was Native American. The teacher said, “What’s that boy been drinking? I know all about these Indian kids. They start drinking real young.” Sherman Alexie didn’t listen to the negatives in school. He persevered and became valedictorian of his school.

Another area that Grant has receive a lot of recent historical attention is his involvement in Indian affairs and his “Peace Policy” initiative. Henry G. Waltmann’s “Circumstantial Reformer: President Grant & the Indian Problem” article is an attempt to dispel Grant’s active involvement in Indian affairs. He contends that Grant was a circumstantial reformer and not as previous “historians have repeatedly depicted Grant as a forceful and imaginative Indian reformer, a crusader for justice, and an enemy of the spoilsmen who perennially preyed upon the Indian service.” Waltmann adds that previous historians failed to present a comprehensive or balance picture of his involvement, but if a critical analysis is conducted his true involvement

Brian Delay wants the reader to be informed about the significance of the Indian people and how it plays a huge role in the U.S. Mexican War. He discusses how the Comanches, Navajos, Apaches, Kiowas, and others reshaped the Mexican territory in which was later disputed by the Americans. Furthermore, he explains how many Mexicans and Americans forget that the Indian tribes were enemies that cause U.S. to interfere with and view Mexico differently. The Indian tribes were a cause of Mexican weakness and the betrayal of the Americans of the Mexican people. In other words, Delay explains that Indian people were the definite cause that led to the international conflict.

According to Dennis Banks, who was a founder of the American Indian Movement, in the excerpt of the speech he made at the 1st anniversary of the occupation at Wounded Knee, he states “It is a crime that Russell and myself, and 130 other defendants have been charged with burglary, and we only have to look to Washington to see who the real burglars are in this country! They have us charged with assault and battery, and we only have to look at Kent State and Attica, to see who should really be charged with assault and battery.” (Doc#7). The point of view of the excerpt of the speech by Dennis Banks, was in the view of someone who was unsettled by the US government's actions regarding Indigenous people. This is key to understanding this document because it provides how the Indigenous people viewed these issues and how they could affect a different demographic from the standpoint of US troops or officials.

For this assignment, I interviewed Tony Easter, a member of the Native American Sac Fox tribe in Missouri. There are three federally recognized Sac fox tribes in the US, one located in Oklahoma, a combined one in Kansas and Nebraska, and one in Iowa. Tony belongs to a branch of the Oklahoma tribe, which unofficially broke from the Oklahoma tribe in the 1970’s following a dispute on the admittance of members through marriage or blood relation to the tribe.

The 1960’s and 70’s were a turbulent time in the United States, as many minority groups took to the streets to voice their displeasure with policies that affected them. During this time period a large movement for civil rights, including Native American’s, would seek to find their voices, as largely urbanized groups sought ways in which they could reconnect with their tribe and their cultural history. In their book, Like A Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee, Paul Chaat Smith, and Robert Allen Warrior take an extensive look at the events leading up to the three of the largest civil rights movements carried out by Native Americans. Beginning with the takeover of Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay by Indians of All Tribes in 1969; the authors tell in a vivid fashion of the Bay Area activism and Clyde Warrior 's National Indian Youth Council, Vine Deloria Jr.’s leadership of the National Congress of Indians, the Trail of Broken Treaties and the Bureau of Indian Affairs takeover, the Wounded Knee Occupation and the rise of the American Indian Movement.

The book, “Indian School Days” is an autobiography of the author Basil Johnston, an Ojibwe native from Wasauksing First Nation, in Ontario. This piece by Author, “Basil Johnston”, gives the reader more and more evidence of the structural lifestyle of the Spanish Indian residential school. From the very beginning his writing style links the reader to never put down the book, it is full of action and true events that took place during his lifetime. The book starts off with Mr. Johnston as a young child of ten years, skipping school with another student, an act that they didn’t think would get them both shipped off to a residential school. But as fortunes and his unfortunate

This paper will briefly cover how the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) treated the Native Americans, during the American Indian Movement (AIM) focusing more in the 1960s-1970s. What initially helped push for the AIM and the end result of it.

“Indians are like the weather.” With his opening words Vine Deloria Jr. sets up the basis for the rest of his witty yet substantial manifesto, Custer Died for Your Sins. The book, which describes the struggles and misrepresentation of the American Indian people in 1960s American culture, is written in a style that changes from ironic and humorous satire to serious notions, then back again. Through energetic dialogue that engages the reader in a clever and articulate presentation, Deloria advocates the dismissal of old stereotypes and shows a viewpoint that allows the general public to gain a deeper understanding of what it is to be an American Indian.

Our nation’s history has been deep rooted in the conflict involving Native Americans, ever since the beginning of America and it is one hard to get rid of even as the days go by. The impact of colonialism can be seen in Native American communities even today, and it can only be understood through a cultural perspective once you experience it. Aaron Huey, who is a photographer, went to Pine Ridge reservation and it led him to document the poverty and issues that the Sioux Indians go through as a result of the United States government’s long term actions and policies against them. One must question all sources regarding these topics because there is a lot of biased and misinformation about Native American struggles, and sometimes schools do not thoroughly teach the truth so students can get an insight. There are also different sociological perspectives in this conflict, along with many differing opinions on how to approach the problem and deal with it. This is where ideas clash because people believe their views are right regarding how to handle it.

If you’re an indigenous person living in America, you’re most likely to find yourself misrepresented if not attacked. “November 20, 1969, 89 American Indians boarded boats in Sausalito, California and made a five-mile trip across the foggy San Francisco Bay to Alcatraz Island… they declared the former prison Indian land “by the right of discovery” and demanded the U.S. government provide funding to turn it into a Native American cultural center and university. When their terms were ignored, activists spent more than 19 months occupying the Island in defiance of the authorities” (Andrews, Native American Activists occupy Alcatraz Island, 45 years ago). All the Native Americans wanted to do is use the island to build an Indian school, cultural center, and a museum, since the government took their lands. In conclusion, not being recognized by the government is another issue that Native Americans

Alcatraz Island has quite a distinct history. Many people know that Alcatraz served as a federal prison, but most are reluctant to know that this island served as fort. Built before the Civil War, it served two main purposes. First, that it was to guard the San Francisco bay area from enemy ships against a foreign invasion, and second, to hold hostage prisoners of war or POW's as they were called. In this report, I'll show you how this fortress came to be a federal prison, why it is no longer in operation today, and most importantly, to show why it was built in the first place. When the great "Gold Rush" of 1849 first started, California grew from what would be considered a small, unpopulated state, into

The main view of Natives come for the way the Ohlone were perceived “California Indians such as the Ohlone were a pathetically backward, uncivilized people who lived in grass hovels, made boats, and tools from unacceptable material, and even preferred baskets to pottery” and even “developed a deeply spiritual sense […] to their balanced relationship with the environment and a communal economic system” (Almaguer, 114). All these prejudices led to the already apparent hatred and bloody relationship between the Anglos and the Indians, by the 1850’s the hostility arose between the two societies “for the Indians’ part, attacks made on the white settlers were usually reprisals for the brutal murders of Indian men and women, and the wholesome kidnapping of Indian children,” their food was practically eliminated “hungry Indians were forced to steak food or kill a cow in order to avoid total starvation” (Almaguer, 119). Furthermore, “complete devaluation in the white man’s eyes reduced [Indian women] to mere property or sexual commodities,” rape was rampant in the Indian community so much that “Indian women were routinely captured and either held as concubines by their kidnappers or sold to other white men for their personal use” (Almaguer, 120-121). By 1857, the communities that were impacted by this relentless torture of the Indians decided

As the cold waters rush into the San Francisco Bay, they crash up against an island standing in the strait. This rock is hidden by the fog and isolated by the chilling waters of the Pacific that flow in and out every day. It has a gloom that hangs about its rocky face most know it as Alcatraz but the men who experienced this island, referred to her as “The Rock”. To the men confined there, it is not only the ultimate in isolation but the most ironic because they are there in the midst of the activity of a busy harbor with small craft darting to and from San Francisco, Oakland, Alameda, Berkeley, Richmond, and Sausalito; within sound of the honking horns of a ceaseless procession of automobiles crossing the bridges; within sight of ocean

Education —an institution for success, opportunity, and progress — is itself steeped in racism. In Sherman Alexie’s short story “Indian Education” from his book The Longer Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven is set in two places, the Spokane Indian Reservation and a farm town nearby the reservation. The story is written in a list of formative events chronologize Victor’s youth by depicting the most potent moment from each year he is in school. Alexie addresses the issue of racism in education by examining examples of injustice and discrimination over twelve years in a boy’s life. Victor faces his initial injustice in first grade when he is bullied by bigger kids, but his understanding of injustice becomes much more complex in grades two through twelve as he experiences discrimination against his American Indian identity. Familial experiences of a Native woman, Alexie’s style and humor, and Victor’s awareness of discrimination from grade one to twelve all reveal the grim reality of growing up and being schooled on an American Indian reservation.