This shows how much mixed whites were treated better than full blood indians.

This is very sad because her aunt is simply reinforcing the negative viewpoints of Native Americans around this time period.

So the right to voting was not explicitly denied, it was simply offered in a way which was too confusing and difficult. This isn't as bad, but still, no one made an effort to make voting more convenient and accessible to Native people.

Very sad that it's just an "oversight". A basic right allotted to all Americans is just overlooked as it has not been taken care of. Not only is this ignorant, it's simply just showing that the government does not care enough about the Native people to do something about this injustice.

Interesting point made by Native people. The colonizers who moved to America did so in order to gain freedom from Britain. However, once they received that freedom after fighting so hard for it, they turned around and neglect the Native people just as Great Britain did to them before the Revolutionary War.

I think we need to be very careful when evaluating what happened here. In many other circumstances we might have biased, strong feelings against what the United States made the Native Americans do. However, just because slavery is a highly offensive concept to us because we as a people outlawed it, we have to realize that this also was part of their civilization, as gruesome as it may be. So now the question is, was this a positive thing because slaves were emancipated or was it negative because it was an attack on Native American civilization?

This is interesting as he was the "trailblazer" in a sense for Indians in this newfound American society. However, he stops and takes the time to speak to his people which he came from.

This is important to understand while reading these documents because we can't fully understand the cultural implications without understanding the native language. Even translated it loses the meaning of the original language.

Kind of inspiring how strong these people were in fighting back even though confined to imprisonment.

Really sad she had to clarify these thoughts of hers through mele... Since she had no way of saying it straight up.

What kinds of other things did she do for her people to keep them in a good, positive mindset about the situation?

Negative propaganda against the Republic of Hawai'i. Portraying them as heathens who were going to infect the states with drugs and terrible behavior in an attempt to win over the American people.

"attempted"? So I'm guessing her plan to write and enforce this constitution failed.

"so-called Republic of Hawai'i" - This shows how the United States viewed the nation and how it did not respect its' sovereign power.

I'm not sure how "splendid" the results actually were. This writing seems a little biased. Yes, you have good intent in mind, we can give the benefit of the doubt there. However, the native Hawaiians on the receiving end don't think this way, and wanted to keep independence to rule their land and live on their own without forced policies and outside government.

This would be very annoying to have your home split in two by two outside powers. Imagine you had family over the border, now to get to them and maintain relationships just got a lot harder.

Seriously you had to kill him over fishing grounds?... The 19th century was a wild time...

Good for them, no one ever asked before splitting their land in two. When creating the border between Canada and the US no one factored in the native territories, so this is only expected to happen...

It's interesting that they keep their ties to their aboriginal lands and keep their tribal identities. It shows how they kind of live a double life of being US "citizens" and also respectfully acknowledging who they really are and where they came from.

While initially positive and while it did have some positive effects, I still agree with this statement that tradition and Native languages were lost in the midst.

Kinda sad no one who was actually involved in the assimilation period is still alive to tell the story as it was exactly.

I wonder how long it took for the Native Americans to realize and come together as a people to reject assimilation. They initially thought that graduating from these schools offered opportunity and prejudice, which is true, but it is no less important than Cherokee life before allotment and assimilation.

Very intriguing how independent and headstrong the Cherokee women were. It's impressive how they could pursue careers in business so early on.

This is really sad. Embracing every part of your ancestry is what is best. White supremacy even found a way to lodge itself in the minds of mixed Native Americans.

Why wouldn't you want to learn your own culture's language and writing???!

Very interesting to me, as a mixed person myself, I sometimes find myself not able to really associate with full blood Chinese or full blood White people. I'm sure it would be a lot different if I was half native American or African American or something like that though.

Kind of unrelated but wow that's some intense inflation we have going on here.

How do you not understand the heartfelt petitions written by tribal leaders? They were literally taught English so that they could communicate properly with the US government. Very sad that this misunderstanding happened and the activism was viewed as manipulation.

Very interesting. So in theory if you were full white, but you spoke the language as your first language and acted like a Cherokee, they would call you a full-blood.

Just interesting^^. Never knew that the women automatically retained custody after divorce in Cherokee culture.

This is another example of how non-native Americans confused their law and religion with what the Cherokees saw as culturally acceptable.

A huge part of Cherokee culture is the relationships of people within the nation. To take away that importance is such a huge mistake.

This is very intirguing because my granpa was raised in a non-Indian household although he was half cherokee.

You can see the assimilation happening with the names here. These names are inherently white/European. I don't think this is a terrible idea though, as many people today still go by their name given at birth and then an English name for the sake of ease.

i've never heard of this, although it's interesting that it is its own field.

To get out of hardship, a change must be made eventually. However, the Trail of Tears was a massively long journey and hugely grueling for anyone who would attempt it. I feel like in the end it was worth it to preserve the people and culture though.

The history of allotment to the Native Americans, especially Cherokee, is extremely depressing. I find this even more shocking because my great grandmother was full Cherokee. She was probably living around this time and it's sad to think about how much poor land they had to work with.

This is at least a step in the right direction because they acknowledged the "communalism characteristic of most indigenous societies."

This comes as a bit of a surprise because these relationships pulled through and saved Nannie although you would think that she would otherwise be left on her own.

Very annoying for the people who were allotted this land. Everything about this is just not ideal. Again, you could view this as "shocking and unfortunate" or realize that the United States gave the very poor land to these people.

This is another example of cultural implications that the United States failed to ask about or even acknowledge. This is a concept, while massively popular with many other cultures, that isn't necessarily cemented as truth in every culture on earth.

Although the intentions might have seemed appropriate to allot land to native Americans, the land they were actually given was extremely poor and unsuitable not only for farming, but for living in general. I find this interesting because it seems like the intentions were good. Some manipulation might have gone on here.