t's less important to me that someone leave this museum knowing all about Wounded Knee than that they leave knowing what it takes to survive that kind of tragedy."
or better yet, how to prevent that kind of tragedy altogether
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- Jun 2019
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ans. The trauma of genocide manifests itself in every aspect of Native life, and precisely because it has never been fully and officially recogn
The Native perspective of colonization should be addressed in all schools for this exact reason.
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We do not want to make the National Museum of the American Indian into an Indian Holocaust Museu
You don't have to be a "Holocaust Museum" director to address and preserve our country's history. No matter if it's bleak or celebratory, that is literally what a museum is for.
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American master narrative-a narrative that has silenced or even erased the memory of the genocidal policies of America's past and presen
It's true, I never learned about the true horrors of colonization until I started high-school. I feel that other events from our country's past (like Japanese internment camps and/or slavery) are also somewhat downplayed in many schools, because it doesn't fit the more noble persona we're trying to play today.
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We suffered great injustices in the colonization process and in the name of Western science-both of which are inti- mately linked with the museum world.
Great point, I rarely see any dioramas, or scientific research conducted on any ancient white people's remains/ancestry. Probably because there weren't many ancient white people living in America before they colonized it.
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Museums are indeed very painful sites for Native peoples as they are intimately tied to the coloni
I understand, but nonetheless I think it is important to learn about the injustice so history doesn't repeat itself
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), but they still are not as economically suc-cessful as the casinos in California or Arizona.
I thought the Navajo were based in Arizona? Where exactly was their casino located on the interstate?
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can money alone solve the problems that American Indian nations face?
Clearly not: when they’re poor, they’re looked down on by fellow white Americans for being lazy or uneducated. When they finally get rich, people whine that they don’t pay taxes (untrue) and conjure up narratives about the existence of organized crime surrounding the casinos. There is no win for the American Indian as long as racism still exists.
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In some areas on Navajo land, there is no running water or electricity.
Curious how the profits from the casinos were distributed. Running water is a basic human right, at least in the US.
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he vicious attacks by private security who used attack dogs on peaceful water protectors was nearly invisible.
Our media has arguable become more liberal in recent years, I’m curious if something like this would have stronger news coverage today?
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Multiple governments oversee gaming, depending on the gaming classiÌcation, including the FBI, states, and the National Indian Gaming Commission, among others. But with all the regulation, there are still allegations of organized crime on reservations. Where do these allegations come from?
Even if there is organized crime on Indian Gaming reservations, this would reflect much more poorly on the government’s ability to do its job properly since there are so many levels of scrutiny that would be overlooking something
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For years, opponents of Indian gaming have claimed ties to organized crime.
First, there is no evidence to support this. Secondly, we know for a fact that Vegas had strong ties to the mafia and organized crime, should we scrutinize and shut down Vegas as well?
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Previously impoverished tribes living in third- world conditions, without running water and electricity, struggling to survive, are now major players in politics, government, and economic growth.
This says a lot about the role money plays in our country. Money definitely buys power, at least where there is corruptible leadership
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In fact, I really don’t even want to be here.But I am.
Interesting way to end this- Is she just talking about the funeral, or her life?
This was my favorite reading for the class so far. I tried doing a bit more research on Vicki Charmain but I couldn't find anything on Google unfortunately
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I hate black people.
Just when I was starting to like her... wow
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“Don’t think I don’t hate white people too. I hate them probably more than black people. Coming up here, living on our land, telling us what we can and can’t do. Making us feel bad about ourselves. That’s what white people do.”
Unlike the previous statement, she offers some sort of justification for this one
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he wished she’d chosen her children over alcohol.
At least she received a second chance
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I am humbly reminded that being uneducated is different from being stupid. This woman who resides in this impoverished, forgotten corner of the world known as the res-ervation is by no means stupid.
This is an incredible feat, with poor/no access to education on the reservation, I find it so impressive that Vic not only learned to read, but managed to hone her skills to such a sophisticated level. John Steinbeck lol I couldn't even get past the first couple pages of Grapes of Wrath.
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he literacy rate on the reservation is abominable
Discrimination against Natives in public schools can be blamed for this.
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Blood might be thicker than water, but it’s thinner than time.
"Blood is thicker than water" clearly means family is extremely important, but “thinner than time” is a bit ambiguous to me, maybe it means you can never spend too much time with your loved ones before it’s too late? curious to hear other interpretations to this
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She cries openly then. I know we share the same pain, she and I. It’s just called different names. Hers is a shame of relinquishment; mine is the hurt of abandonment. Both are two sides of the same adoption coin.
I feel bad for judging the mother now, I was not expecting her to react this way as my first impression of her was just an abusive drunkard. I sympathize with her
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“Baby! Go get me a beer,” she demanded, then laughed
I'm surprised no one has acknowledged this line yet, it's pretty sadistic. Poor baby
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Vic’s face, and like Albert, her eyes had an Asian appearance.I shared her genetic material, same as Ronni, my blood sister, eigh-teen months my senior; same as James Allen
Hmm these names sound very American, I'm a bit confused- are they mixed race maybe?
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continue to coexist in peace and friendship as our grandfathers and their grandfathers tried so hard to do.
Does "our" refer to just the Native ancestors, or Natives and whites/founding fathers? I'm assuming just the Natives, because it's a bit optimistic to assume that the founding fathers saw a future where whites and non-whites could get along, considering so many of them literally owned other (non-white, or black) people at the time.
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We have not asked you to give up your religions and beliefs for ours.We have not asked you to give up your language for ours.We have not asked you to give up your ways of life for ours.We have not asked you to give up your government for ours.We have not asked that you give up your territories to us.Why can you not accord us the same respect?
"asked" is putting it lightly, it's more like they demanded these things through their barbaric views and beliefs of colonization
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There must be someone among you who is concerned for us, and if not for us, at least for the honor of your country. In 1976, you are going to have a birthday party proclaim-ing 200 years of democracy, a hypocritical action. The people of the world would find this laughable.
The US is enforcing the same tyranny on the Natives that they fought so hard to escape from Great Britain; they have to overlook a lot of injustice to be able to see themselves as champions of freedom
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sacred hoop
(kind of a tangent) so I googled this and it has much more meaning than I expected. It refers to a "medicine wheel", which looks like a steering wheel. The directions on the wheel indicate the sun, sky, moon and earth, representing the cycles of life and health. The wheel itself also symbolizes the cycle of life
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America has a moral obli-gation before the eyes of all the world to undo the many wrongs inflicted upon our Indian peoples;
This is still relevant today, but how exactly would they "undo" the deaths of millions? They can start by granting the Natives a Democracy, or some kind of financial reparations would be a start, but even these seem trivial.
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To think within the cage-like confines of a room too often produces box-like results
This must be an analogy to a prison cell
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American Indian pro-testors occupied the abandoned federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay
Sending people to a maximum security prison for exercising their first amendment right seems a bit excessive
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With support from Governor Earnest Gruening, a grassroots movement ulti-mately led the territorial legislature to adopt an Anti-Discrimination Act in February 1945
It's always nice to know that a community's fight for equality/justice didn't end in vain. I'm sure this didn't end discrimination for the Natives but it is a step in the right direction
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When a Norwegian, Swedish, or an Irishman makes a fool of himself in any of these business establishments, he is asked to leave and that is not held against all of the Norwegians, Swedes, or what have you. We ask that we be accorded the same considerations.
Bold of them to assume the colonists could view them as actual human beings like their fellow whites and not some sub-humans unworthy or incapable of learning in the same schools as them or staying in the same hotels.
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Tlingit
Define: Name for Natives living along the coast of Alaska
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but in the whole Territory.
All of America would be more appropriate, though I doubt at the time they (Natives especially) would have the appropriate resources to travel to and/or communicate with the rest of the US
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I sold cigars, cigarettes and chewing tobacco and Navajo rugs, and crawled on my hands and knees planting flowers for rich people back East in order to earn my way through school. No government, nor friend ever rose up and said: “I will lend you this money. You don’t need to pay one-half of it back. You can pay a small amount of interest on the other half and I won’t ask you to go into a contract and whenever you go into a job and pay it back.” I wish somebody would have offered me that opportunity. But you have it now.
It's great that Cloud was a hustler and extremely proactive person in his early age, but the idea of the government giving out free "loans" seems too good to be true, especially for the Natives. I wouldn't blame them for being skeptical of it.
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if any man came out of Washington and offered them a bill of this kind, they wouldn’t hesitate two seconds and they would grab it. Never such a wonderful thing came out of Wash-ington to the Indian people such as we have been offered in this day.
I'm not sure on the author's intentions of pushing this bill so hard, but it seems he genuinely cares about a brighter future for the natives and is doing everything in his power to illustrate to them that this bill is everything they need. I hope that's the case
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The reaction that that sort of a program will be such tremendous develop-ment among the Indians as that we will begin to see the most wonderful and wonderful Indian leaders among both men and women and that is the secret of the meaning of self-government which this bill is seeking
We have taken steps towards this goal since this time period. even though they don't have self-government, Natives are more closely integrated with our society than they once were.
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holding onto their lands to give these Indians who have squandered their inheritance and their lands, and turn around and give them some more land. But the Commissioner feels very strongly this way about it.
I don't understand why the commissioner feels so strongly about this it's not really the logical thing to do. They had their shot and blew it, why wouldn't they give other Natives a chance before giving the squanderers a second?
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Is there another country where a man would be allowed to vote,
Just curious as to why she didn't specify women. Does "man" here refer to humans in general? Or was the concept of women's suffrage too progressive at the time?
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may the Great Ruler of all nations deal with the grand and glorious nation of the United States of America.
Subtle request, but it sounds like she's asking for God to exact some kind of vengeance against the USA on her behalf. Depends on your interpretation of "deal with".
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in the race for conquest, and could create a vast military and naval power, if such is its ambition. But is such an ambition laudable?
This question is relevant even today, as the US pumps hundreds of billions into the military every year and strives to maintain an image as a global force to be reckoned with.
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he people of the Islands have no voice in determining their future, but are virtually relegated to the condition of the aborigines of the American continent.
Everything in this excerpt so far suggests that the Natives would be against the idea of Hawaii becoming a US state, but I'm assuming that decision was made without the Native's wishes considered.
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made speeches claiming to be American citizens. Such has been their custom at Honolulu, although in Washington they represent themselves as Hawaiians. . . .
sleazy tactic pandering to the American people, and switching sides to the other ethnicity when it fits their needs
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Sandwich Islands
DEFINE/fun fact: Nickname given to Hawaiian islands, named after John Montagu who was also known as the Earl of Sandwich lol
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Most of those who graduated were from comparatively affluent families,
different issue, but this also demonstrates income inequality, a problem which affects the US to this day. The already well-off are able to maintain/protect, and strengthen their status with their ease of access to education, whereas the lower-class, lacking all the extra resources available to the affluent, must learn to adapt or become complacent with their poverty.
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Despite its shortcomings, the Cherokee Female Seminary was un-questionably the catalyst for the prosperity of many Cherokee women and their families
prosperous for many Cherokee families already at or close to peak social and/or financial status
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seminaries were merely "pieces of imitation, with the high schools of the United States for models," and therefore served no practical purpose in a nation composed mainly of farmers.
Valid point, the much of the knowledge gained from high school curricula isn't meant to be, or even designed to be practical, arguably even today.
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tribal members who were proslavery and those who were not
Surprises me how there could be any tribal members who supported slavery, considering how many of their ancestors lost their lives to the same cruelty and ruthlessness that slavery thrives on.
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wigwams
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elocution
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blood quantums
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"full bloods went to Tahlequah to become like the white folk."
as unfortunate as it is that members of a culture would abandon their own to willingly assimilate with another, it is also understandable when the benefits of being part of a different culture far outweigh the burdens of your own.
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The teachers also relentlessly reinforced the importance of learning and retaining the values of white society. At the same time, they repressed Cherokee values, thereby causing confusion among the more traditional students.
The teachers are slowly trying to erase the Cherokee culture. When children at such an early age are prevented from expressing their culture, may grow up detached from their culture/background, and are less likely to pass it on to future generations
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Mixed-blood students frequently scorned those girls who had less white blood and darker skin.
This behavior is learned, it cannot be innate
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cultural superiority
This term just really stuck out to me, reminds me of the Caste system, where everyone is part of the same culture/ethnicity but there exists a hierarchy that is determined solely by color of skin.
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females of the tribe would learn to imitate whites and become "True Women."
School's sole purpose was racist, sexist and cultural genocide. "TRuE wOMeN"
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The soldiers had black souls and black hearts. If I live to be a thou-sand I won't forget, and when I'm gone my children and then my grandchildren will remember.
I also think it's incredibly important to never forget the bloodshed. And it's not to remind us to feel guilty, but rather having the decency to acknowledge that the great suffering of an entire population is embedded in our country's history.
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When they first captured Big Foot and his Band, he told them not to pick fight. "Wait and be humble:· he said, "do what you're told.
Big Foot, and the Native-Americans in general are well-aware of their disadvantages in weaponry compared to the colonists. They must tolerate their unjust treatment if they want any chance of surviving.
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They sit there aU night with Big Foot and they [the soldiers] don't let them sleep, not even lay down for a while, and when they move, they poke them with a gun and told them to sit still.
Dehumanizing treatment of Big Foot, must've taken a tremendous amount of self-restraint to not retaliate
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Lot of people say it's the Battle of Wounded Knee. It's not a battle, it's a mas-sacre.
I never considered this event from the Native-American perspective. History books and lectures shouldn't present events like this one as a war, or two-sided struggle because it ignores the ruthlessness of the colonizers that the natives had to endure
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