The United States And India

The oppression of people is often thought of as a political inequality. There are various forms of oppression. The forms of oppression typically thought of are violence and exploitation. However, as a society America does not see the oppression created by a lack of education that happens throughout schools. Education is a tool required for societies to advance. Lack of advancements caused by this oppression has the ability to stunt a community. Without proper education, Native Americans cannot leave this vicious cycle of oppression they face. (Congress, Chairman Rokita 2015). Native Americans are known to have the highest unemployment rates as well as the highest poverty rate. They are also known as the most educationally oppressed race in America. (U.S. Census, 2012a, 2012b). The achievement gap of Native Americans continues to widen, as the achievement gaps between other races decrease. Other forms of oppression, such as the government oppression in education, oppression of wealth (monetarily and resources) in education, and cultural oppression in education all contribute to the achievement gap of Native Americans. However, there are various solutions arising in attempt to lessen the Achievement Gap.

(U.S. Census Bureau, 2010); whereas it defines Native Americans as American Indian or Alaskan Native las “A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central America) and who maintains tribal affiliation or community attachment.” (U.S. Census Bureau, 2010). The former, appears to be privileged in regards to economic status as opposed to the latter which appears to be the most affected by poverty. Furthermore, the race-based policies are still in place: ignoring the necessities of the Indian Country by limiting economic and social development, (Peralta, 2014. Regan, 2014.), the lack of enforcement of ‘The Protection of Indian Sacred Sites’ (Departments of Defense, the Interior, Agriculture, and Energy and the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, 2015) and continuing of mass incarceration based on race (Alexander, 2010), just to mention some of them. The intention of this brief explanation has a main and a secondary purpose. Mainly it aims to introduce a categorical difference between the State and the peoples self-defined as Native Americans; which raises the question is the Native American a race or an ethnicity? Secondly, to state that “Race and racism do not simply or necessarily follow from the mere propinquity and interaction of two peoples who happen to be physically different […] but the social recognition of such differences as socially significant or

When thinking of New York City, more often than not, the first things one visualizes is the beautiful skyline, the bright lights, and Times Square. But without a second glance, one might miss one of the important things about the city. New York is the most heavily Dominican populated city in the United States. It’s ironic that the first non-native American to migrate to and reside on what is today New York City, was from Santo Domingo, the capital city of the Dominican Republic. Throughout history, Dominicans have migrated to the US in search of economic opportunity. This is the factor that influences nearly every immigrant group that migrates to the US in history. In the early 1900s, The United States and the Dominican Republic had a very close diplomatic relationship, to the point where the President considered annexation. At one point, the United States completely controlled the Sugar industry, one of the country’s most profitable markets.

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

We will begin by discussing the first article that was written in 1981 by Steve Murray and Luther Tweeten named, "Culture, Education, and Economic Progress and Federal Reservations" and was published in the Growth & Change academic journal. This article takes a look at the economic issues in Indian reservations across the country and explains them in a mathematical form to explain why they are generally poor and struggling communities. Two negative things about this article is one, it is not specifically written for the topic of Native American education, and two, the article is almost thirty years old now. Although this does not make the article irrelevant because it does provide factual information about the current times in which it was written, and it does extensively discuss problems and

Various federal government policies or actions have significantly impacted the daily lives of Native Americans today. One such action is one taken by President Grant in 1865 that required all American Indian to be taken away from their homes and families and be placed in boarding schools. This action was meant to separate American Indians from their culture. However, this action has greatly impacted the climate of schools and the education system towards American Indians. Many American Indian children continue to be belittled in school as there is a cultural bias that has existed against this native community for years (Martinez, 2014). Because of this cultural bias, many Native Americans continue to drop out of schools today.

This book has been a really helpful source of information on Indigenous peoples in the U.S. It beginning chapters were useful for information on the area category, and the last few chapters discuss U.S. government intervention onto reservations in an attempt to make positive change. However, even though their intentions of increasing Native education in the mid-1900’s, their ways of carrying out such “help” was oppressive and demeaning. These chapters, among other policies, discuss Native American boarding schools where teens from tribes were brought to schools, and there were forced to learn European norms in an attempt to diminish their traditional culture. This resources shows that even in the modern day, not all aid is helpful and intentions can be multifaceted.

For many years Native American people have been discriminated against in the United States as well as in the Public School system. Beginning with the common-school movement of the 1830s and 1840s, which attempted to stop the flow toward a more diverse society, the school systems have continued to be geared exclusively toward WASPS (White Anglo-Saxon Protestants). Native Americans have been forced to abandon their culture and conform to our “American” ways (Rothenberg, 1998, pp. 258-259.)

Imagine living in a world where you were kicked out of your home for your background and culture. Imagine living in a small secluded area with your people with poor housing, weak education, and poor health and wellness. This was the reality for American Indians years and years ago. In the 1960s and earlier there was a massive conflict in America known as the Civil Rights Movement, but one group that was discriminated against that is often overlooked is the Native Americans. They faced discrimination, unemployment, poor education and poor housing along with the social unacceptance.

On September 9, 1850 California became the 31st state, how this came about is “Mexico and the United States singed a treaty which ended the Mexican war and yielded a large portion of South west including present day California.” Previously in January 1848 gold had been discovered on the American River near Sacramento this rushed California’s admittance to the union. Furthermore, “in 1849 California sought statehood and heated debate in the U.S. congress arising out of the slavery issue. California would enter the Union as a free, non-slavery state by the compromise of 1850.” It was easy for California to be a part of the United States but it took the elected officials a while to get the constitution together. However, “California state

When looking at the history between the United States and Latin America, you see many interactions between them, all that aided the relationship that they have today. Despite that the United States and Latin America are in the same part of the world, the beliefs in which they govern may differ. This difference has often been seen playing a major role in the disputes that have occurred in past. The United States and Latin America have faced many social, economical and governing barriers in forming a strong and positive relationship in the early twentieth century, this is due to the differences that the two had between cultures and the constant demand for power. However, the two countries have found ways to meet in the middle of their cultural differences, to form an equally fair relationship.

The Indian Schools claimed their purpose is to “civilize” Native Americans in a way that resembled white culture. However, these schools, in effect, acted as total institutions that didn’t promote individualism. Instead, they forced Native American students to oblige to various rules that stripped away their identity and labeled them as working class people. The after product of this process didn’t help students smoothly transition to “American” way of life; instead, they were left in a society that neither helped them to flourish in the dominant culture at the time nor to practice their own culture. Generally, I see this project as a big failure to the current values of the American culture and I hope these and other minority groups will be

When someone is asked about Indians, most will automatically describe dark skinned, barefoot, shirtless, long haired men, who hunt. This misconception of Indians illustrates them as being savage, barbaric, and uncivilized. It is stereotypes like this that cause people to believe that Indians are really like this. These stereotypes are behind why society labels Indians as inferior to Whites and the reason why Indians are treated poorly. During the years when Indian boarding school movement started, “the solution to the Indian problem lay in the rapid assimilation of the race into the American life” which meant creating these off reservation boarding schools that emphasized this idea of “kill the Indian in him and save the man” (Adams 52). Those behind this forced cultural

NEA’s Department of Indian Education (1899) produced research on how the government’s policy of isolating and assimilating the American Indian nations negatively impacted their education. Indian

The Native Americans and the United States have not always seen eye to eye on things since the beginning. The approach of the people of the white civilization has brought extreme agony and torture to the Native Americans. This was as a result of race playing a humongous part in humanity during this time, for this reason the Native Americans were looked down on and poorly treated by the white population. This was a strenuous point in time for the American Indians to adapt to society since their culture, attitudes, values, and beliefs were slowly being abandoned and the federal government wanting them to assimilate to the white culture. Since then the Native Americans have struggled to persevere on reservation lands, deprived of support, and for the most part hopelessness. There are many social problems that contribute to the delinquency of Native-American youth on the reservation. The community dilemmas that contribute to the failure of the Native-Americans younger generation are poor academic achievement, alcoholism, domestic violence, mental health issues, and unemployment. These horrendous matters will hopefully disappear in the time and Native-Americans will become successful in today’s society.