Living On The Reservation: It's An Isolate Nation

One difference between Rowdy and Junior is their families. The way Junior was raised was completely different from Rowdy’s upbringing. Rowdy has a difficult life, his dad is always drinking. Junior states “His father is drinking hard and throwing

The boundary of the Yakama Nation Reservation is considered home to different culturally diverse populations. Parenting skills and teaching can vary dramatically from each of those unique households. The diverse populations come with varying levels of what is considered appropriate child rearing practices. “Child abuse intakes are increasing due to families from Mexico coming here to the US and the standards are different” (Ruiz, 2015). Pilar Ruiz is a Social Worker at Children’s Administration assigned to the Child Protective Services. Families migrate to the area and they carry different perspectives on parenting and may not understand the expectations of Washington State and Child Abuse Laws. It is not only migrant families that need additional support. Families that have been here for many years have traditional practices that may cross the line when it comes to child abuse and neglect. These families that are located in this area need the additional support of increasing family bonds, healthy parenting, life skills, bonding, and reducing violence and substance abuse.

For hundreds of years’ Indigenous people have been colonized by the British and now Canadian settlers in Canada. Colonization is defined in Merriam-Webster Dictionary as taking control of an area and sending people to live there. This is initially what the British did when coming to North America. However, since then colonization has gained a larger and more sinister meaning. Colonization was used to undermine and devalue all aspects of Indigenous culture, including traditional medicine and healing practicesi. It encompasses the attempt at assimilating the indigenous people into the now western ways by presenting Indigenous people as savages and less than the European culture. Due to this history of colonization Indigenous people now have

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.

An oil boom at the Fort Berthold reservation has attracted thousands of newcomers—and a wave of hard-to-prosecute crime. (Sierra Crane-Murdoch)

CB created a great career for himself that allowed him to have autonomy. He explained to us that he worked hard to get the job he had and he was able to make his own schedules and work as often as he wanted. Even though he was able to choose when he worked he usually was there when the other people who are part of his company, including his children, were there. CB explained to us that he was able to work on the reservations still doing his masonry work laying bricks to build things for them. This is when he realized how different life on the reservation was from the way that he was living life off of the reservation. He told us that he wished he wasn’t sent to the boarding school so that he was more fluent in Ojibwe and so he could have been more aware of the practices that they used and still use on the

Native americans should be like the rest of us and not live on the reservations because they can hardly survive there. You can still do your own traditions and all your beliefs with the benefits of some extra dough. I will discuss why, how it will happen, and how we wont forget their ways. You can live like the rest us of, but still have your same traditions. Native americans should be able to get a job easily and raise a family just like the rest of us even if they live differently.

I found it interesting that the number of jobs in the work force nearly tripled, but those that were employed only rose by about a hundred people. The unemployment rate also rose to nearly triple what is was as well. It is staggering to see that the average income was under $10,000. Just take a minute to think how little money that is and you aren’t even sure if most people were on the higher or lower side of $10,000. I founded it very interesting that the Crow Creek Reservation was supposed to be a prison camp, but just think how many people it makes a good home for instead. I loved looking at the attractions or various things that were available on your reservation.

Sovereignty is very important to American Indian tribes, and they take many steps to preserve it. In this paper I will talk about how American Indian tribes peruse protecting natural resources as a strategy to strengthen their sovereignty.

Imagine living in a house called Hogan. It’s a house that the Navajo tribe lived in its quite fascinating. The Hogan houses were not that difficult to make all that was needed to make it were a few poles put together then on the surface it would be covered with branches, leaves, and mud. On the other hand, not everyone back then lived in Hogans like the Spanish colonies lived in actual houses from what we see today, but much smaller it had its own style. Back then or long ago not everything or everyone was similar it was quite different. There’s many differences between tribes and colonies like the example above the Spanish Colonies are very different then the Navajo tribe. The Spanish colonies are different than the Navajo tribe because the

For thousands of years the Native Americans of the Americas were isolated from the Europeans. The Natives came into America over an ice bridge and into Alaska. After the ice bridge melted away, the Natives were disconnected from the world. They spread throughout the continent and their world consisted of many different societies within America. When the Europeans arrived, the Natives were unprepared for the rapid expansion of Europeans and all of the alien matters that they would face (Henretta, 2006).

I did not know that Indian American tribes today have a special status, but after I read the chapter, reservation on page, 86-89 I know that they have a special status.

In the early years, George Washington believed that the best way to solve the “Indian Problem” was to simply “civilize” the Native Americans. The Goal was to convert them to Christianity, learn to speak and read English and adopt European-style economic practices like Individual ownership of land and other property. Some of the Tribes embraced these customs and become known as the “Five Civilized Tribes”. (www.history.com)

Conquering those obstacles and fears is a step in the right direction to getting to that ultimate goal. Which is happiness, in America we have the opportunity to do anything we want with our lives but the true goal in America is to find what makes you happy, find a career that makes you love every aspect of life. Another track on this album “A Tail of Two Citiez” is about J.Cole’s decision to move to New York city and go to school at St. Johns university rather then stay in Fayetteville North Carolina, his home town. Cole as a kid always dreamt of becoming rich and he knew he couldn’t do that in his hometown. He explained this with the lyrics “Last night I had a bad dream that I was trapped in this city”, he was scared that he would be stuck in his small town forever.

The first verse of the song shares the troubled relationship between the father and son, when it said, “he came to the world in the usual way, but there were planes to catch and bills to pay. He learned to walk while I was away.” This verse explained that he was away on some type of career to make money for the family, and provide for the son financially. However, he wasn’t able to spend quality time with him, and missed important milestones in his life, such as taking his first steps. His career obviously came before his son and family, and he made excuses for that. Then it finishes with the chorus, which says, “when you