In the 1860s, Americans devoured dime novels that embellished the lives of real-life individuals such as Calamity Jane and Billy the Kid.
Is this where the whitewashing of the West started?
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- Sep 2021
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Thousands of California’s Natives were thus pressed into a form of slave labor that supported the growing mining, agricultural, railroad, and cattle industries.
I had no clue about this!
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Cries for a swift American response filled the public sphere, and military expeditions were sent out to crush Native resistance.
Again, we are seeing demonization of non-white groups. I want to know how media portrayed Natives at this time.
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Congress hoped that religiously minded men might fare better at creating just assimilation policies and persuading Indians to accept them. Historian Francis Paul Prucha believed that this attempt at a new “peace policy . . . might just have properly been labelled the ‘religious policy.’”
By making Indigenous people more "palatable" to white settlers, this is how they can justify not killing them. Settlers want to take as much away from their culture as they can because it is different from theirs. By forcing Natives further into "white" culture, they lose more and more of their identity. This is an example of systemic racism in our government.
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no longer a viable reality.
It is so horrendous that we kept pushing back these groups of Indigenous people and then displaced them until they had nowhere else to turn to. The worst part is, Indigenous people are still having issues with feeling displaced. W. Kumau Bell has a great segment on his show United Shades. Below is a great video from his show that describes current issues that Indigenous groups still face.
https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2017/05/10/kamau-bell-native-americans-united-shades-orig-wl.cnn
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Others came to the Plains to extract the hides of the great bison herds. Millions of animals had roamed the Plains, but their tough leather supplied industrial belting in eastern factories and raw material for the booming clothing industry.
The fact that this animal specifically was important to Native cultures makes this more devastating. Now Indigenous families are limited with the bison they can hunt. Arizona has a system where anyone can apply to hunt bison and 12 are granted the opportunity. I think that it's odd that they give anyone the opportunity to take more bison out of the hands of Indigenous hunters. In the article they do mention how they specially allot 75-100 bison for tribal communities, it still feels odd that we are taking 12 bisons out of their ownership that they could use. Especially since we live Native land, it is odd that we still dictate how they can run it.
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- Aug 2021
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the convention went wild. Some wept, many shouted, and the band began to play “For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow.” Bryan received the 1896 Democratic presidential nomination.
I didn't know that he had that much influence!
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Racial mistrust and division remained the rule, even among Populists, and even in North Carolina, where a political marriage of convenience between Populists and Republicans–fusion–resulted in the election of Populist Marion Butler to the Senate. Populists opposed Democratic corruption, but this did not necessarily make them champions of interracial democracy.
This feels so horrible to me. You have a huge number of individuals who are taken advantage of by the monopolies and businessmen in power. They all face a common struggle yet, the white workers still miss the point entirely and push out other Black men and women who are having their same problems. There is power in numbers, and when you actively are against Black workers, you hurt your own case. I hate reading stuff like this. They can't put their own racist ideologies aside.
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“Wall Street owns the country,” the Populist leader Mary Elizabeth Lease
This feels so prevalent today too! Crazy how similar all this feels to current events!
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It provided the protective foundation for a new American industrial order, while Spencer’s social Darwinism provided moral justification for national policies that minimized government interference in the economy for anything other than the protection and support of business.
I feel like this is starting to look more like the Republican party we know today.
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ever, were the legal creations used to protect investors and sustain the power of massed capital.
Oh, so we always always to support the rich men in charge, sounds right. I'll keep that in mind.
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tasks could be done quicker and more efficiently
Reminds me of Amazon headquarters. Treating workers like machines and not humans.
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Long hours, dangerous working conditions, and the difficulty of supporting a family on meager and unpredictable wages compelled armies of labor to organize and battle against the power of capital.
This would make anyone crazy! The fact that they couldn't empathise with the workers baffles me!
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American soldiers were deployed all across northern rail lines
Why was there no attempt as talking things out from the government? In my experience, listening and trying to understand other's point of view is the way to help changes. Its the governments job to listen and not fight against it.
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a rifle diet for a few days and see how they like that kind of bread.
Does he mean the diet of a soldier or eating bullets? Im not quite sure what he is referring to. All I know is that its bad.
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