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- Read: article from the Atlantic, "How America's Past Shapes Native Americans Present.:" and leave a comment (short paragraph) on this blog
- "The Great Emancipator's Mass Execution" and "Another Proclamation" by Sherman Alexie
- College-level essay and Looking at Academic Voice
- Sherman Alexie: Indian Education (READ FOR HOMEWORK)
When reading the news article about how the past decisions the United States government made is still affecting the Native Americans today. Right now the Native Americans have a 27% poverty rate, they are still trying to fight the lasting effects of the Indian Relocation Act of 1956. which made a large number of Native Americans move to urban Areas such as Minneapolis. With so many native Americans moving to Minneapolis there was a need for them to stand up for themselves so “Minneapolis became the headquarters of the national American Indian Movement, a civil-rights group. Among other achievements, it pressured the federal government to restore tribal recognition and sovereignty”(The Atlantic). One of the effects that this act has on present-day native Americans is their schooling which have a low rate of high school graduation, for example, Chavanna Rodriguez who is going to take 5 years to gaduatuate high school.
ReplyDeleteWhat this article discussed was how Native Americans have dealt with lots of hardship. In the early 1800s, Native American children were sent off to federal boarding schools to learn about white America and to forget about Native American culture. Once these boarding schools were closed in the 1930s, the Indian Relocation Act of 1956 was created and forced Native Americans to move from their reservations into cities; this ties into the topic of Minneapolis and how it has become home to many Native Americans. Traits of reservation life are still around in the Phillips neighborhood in the southern part of Minneapolis. These traits include drugs, alcohol, and education. Seventeen years old Chavanna Rodriguez exclaims, "A lot of people are struggling and hurt, and it lets them escape...It may take me five years to graduate [high school], but I will" (Campbell). Native Americans are a minority group, but yet they are not often mentioned in politics.
ReplyDeleteThis article emphasizes how the relocation act of 1956 deeply impacted Native Americans, "Though the act didn’t force people to leave their reservations, it made it hard for families to stay by dissolving federal recognition of most tribes, and ending federal funding for reservations’ schools, hospitals, and basic services—along with the jobs they created"(Campbell). This made life extremely harder for Indians who wanted to stay on the reservation, although the image of urban areas have been a more socially desirable place to reside, reservations hold history and defines who they are, this act indirectly forced many Native Americans to leave. But even when Natives left to places like Minneapolis, they still faced hardship, "urban Native Americans faced high levels of job discrimination, and few opportunities for job advancement"(Campbell). This act severely impacted the Native poverty rate, "Native Americans now make up 7 percent of residents in the Phillips neighborhood in the southern part of Minneapolis, which is also the city’s poorest neighborhood—about 48 percent of people there live in poverty"(Campbell). This is a result of the discrimination the act provided.
ReplyDeleteIn this article by Alexia Campbell, she talks about how difficult live is for the Native Americans living on reservations and how they will have to avoid obstacles for the rest of their lives. One of the major opportunities that most Americans get that a very small amount of Native Americans get is education. Living in poverty makes it difficult for these poor Native Americans to get a good education. There is a very small amount of people living on reservations that graduate. The federal government had decided to use some money on moving the Native American people out of the reservations and to the city, rather than spending it on better education, jobs, and even more entertainment other than hunting and fishing. The Relocation Act of 1956 made it more difficult than it already was to find a better life. It remains hard for Native Americans to find jobs in the city but the education is slightly increasing but still not a lot. Who knows if the Native American life will ever be as easy as an American.
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DeleteThis article, written by Alexia Champbell, discusses relations between the relocation act of 1956 and the lives of Native Americans today and their ancestors. The Native Americans have suffered a great deal due to being forced into small reservations and having to live in poverty with little to no chance for advancement. Education is their only way out but with a graduation rate of 36% it is clear that Native American children and their parents don't care for it. This can be due to the fact that the prior generations were forced into boarding schools and stripped of their language and culture. Although now schools are being made better to help children become more successful and have a better chance in advancing in their social status while connecting with their past.
ReplyDeleteThis article, written by Alexia Champbell, talks about reservations and Native American life. Champbell discusses the fact that Native Americans will face hardships for their entire lives. Even still today, Native Americans are living in poverty. One of the topics Alexia talks about is that Native American children receive little to no education. The Rocation Act made life for Native Americans even harder than it was before.
ReplyDeleteThe article written by Alexia Champbell responses how terrible resverations and Native American life is right now.She discusses that Native American children have little to no education and that they will always get the hard ways in life,and still living in poverty.The Relocation Act of 1956 made a lot more harder lives for Native Americans and they being consumed by alcohol.
ReplyDeleteThis article is on the lives of natives Americans living in modern day reservations. It explains about the poverty,alcoholism,and drugs that they have to face. The government is not doing much to help either,They should be adding businesses to create more jobs and entertainment.The people living there aren't granted even decent education niether which makes it very difficult to get a good get a job paying above minimum wage. Hopefully all of this will change.
ReplyDeleteThis article was about Native American and all of the hardships they go through. Native American children were forced to go to federal boarding schools where they were taught about white America and were told to forget about their Native American culture. The Indian Relocation Act of 1956 didn't force families to move out of the reservation but it made it harder for them to stay. Federal funding for hospitals, schools, and basic needs were ended as well as the jobs those services gave the Native American people. Because Native Americans face a 27 percent poverty rate, not a lot of them are educated. Drugs and alcohol are a big issue as well. 17 year old Chavanna Rodriguez who goes to the Little Earth's youth center says "A lot of people are struggling and hurt, and it lets them escape" (Rodriguez). Native Americans still face difficulties to this day.
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ReplyDeleteIn this article written by Alexia Champbell it talks about how Native Americans are living on modern day reservations. Many of the adults on the reservations are addicted to drugs and alcohol. The Children are poorly educated. Adults do not have jobs to supports there familys and if they do have jobs they usually dont pay above minimum wage. People living on these reservations say the living conditions are very bad.
ReplyDeleteIn this article written by Alexia Champbell she discusses how the Relocation Act of 1959 impacted Native Americans and their lives and present day Native Americans. This act directly lead to the massive amount of poverty found on Native American Resverations. It ended federal funding for schools,hospitals, and basic services which led to the loss of the jobs that these created. Without these, the epidemic of poverty had begun. Through poverty came the addicition to drugs and alcohol which is a huge problem within the Native American communties. Champbell goes into further detail and explains these problems in her article.
ReplyDeleteIn this article written by Alexia Campbell she talks about how Native Americans experienced hardships in the past century. First of all, in the beginning of the Expansion into the West, Native Americans were forced to live on reservations to make room for white settlers. Then the children were taken to federal schools where they were assimilated into society. They were “encouraged” to forget their culture and were only allowed to speak English and play sports of European origin. The Indian Relocation Act of 1956 influenced Native Americans to relocate into cities and leave reservation life behind because the government wasn’t supporting anything on the reservation. In the 1970s, Minneapolis was made the headquarters of the national American Indian Movement. They were a civil-rights group that worked to fix the past mistakes of the US. government that affected the Native Americans. The group pressured the government to reinstate tribal recognition. Even though Native Americans were given back their identity, they still faced hardships in modern life. Native Americans in the urban area are facing a high poverty rate. There are many people who suffer from drug and alcohol problems in their life. Also, there is a smaller opportunity for education for the children that live on the reservation. Hopefully the lives of future generations of Native Americans will improve and they can live their lives freely without the worry of losing their culture or beliefs again.
ReplyDeleteIn this article written by Alexia Champbell she discusses the value of education and how Native Americans do not have much of it. She also discusses the poverty that they all live in. In the 1930s, boarding schools began closing after an independent evaluation revealed that students were living in poor, overcrowded conditions, due to the fact more Native Americans were living in the area. It is very easy to understand why Little Earth was the heart of city’s Native American community. Frank Downwind, the director of youth services at Little Earth, renovated a few houses in the neighborhood for families who wanted to become homeowners but didn’t want to leave the area. He says, “For all the bad stuff that goes on here, to live in a community where people know you, kids run up to you, that’s something hard to find" (Downwind). It is crazy how lucky we are today, to not be living in this kind of poverty. Most of the children depicted in teaching materials have dark skin , long, black hair - a very small percentage is caucasian. For Native Americans to get out of this hole of poverty, they must understand the value of education and take advantage of what they have to their best ability.
ReplyDeleteThis article really shows the horrible things that natives have to go through. Why we can't just give them the means to succeed as any other person, I don't know. Many of the things talked about happened years ago, but many awful things are still happening to the native Americans. Instead of sending aid to far away countries we, we should send aid to the people suffering here in America. They need better schools, food, and job opportunity on the reservations.
ReplyDeleteI thought it was very interesting when it talked about the Indian relocation act of 1956. This pry of the article really made me start to think about how hard it must have been to be apart of a culture where everyone was so against you that they didn't even want you to be near them or want you to be a part of the country they are trying to start
ReplyDeleteThis article shows the tough lifestyle of Native Americans and how bad life can get for them. Native Americans do not have as much education as we do here, which is unfair to them. This is unfortunate for these Natives because education is one of the few ways to get out of this poverty. This shows that they really don't care about education there and the parents would rather spend there money on drugs or alcohol rather than a chance for there child to get educated. Next to education, Alexia Campbell discussed poverty, how some of these Native Americans live is awful. It is very sad to me that there are children and teenagers who's parents are addicted to drugs and alcohol, just to escape the bad life as a Native American. Another topic discussed in this article is the Indian Relocation act of 1956, which made it harder for Native Americans to stay.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, Native Americans still face many hardships, whether it's at school, home, or on the reservation. Alcoholism plays a role in most native homes. Alcohol is used as an escape route for the poverty struck lives of these people. The children then come to the decision of becoming like the rest of society, or to separate and learn to strive to become a better person. Along with separating comes standing out, and being judged by fellow natives.
ReplyDeleteIn this article, Alexia Campbell described the life style of Native Americans and how truly touch life was for them. The poverty they live in takes many things away from them. For example, Campbell explains how Native Americans did not receive the same education as Americans do. In the 1930s, boarding schools began closing after an evaluations revealed that students were living in such horrible conditions. As the boarding schools began to close, the children began to loose more and more education. Their parents showed they care more about drugs and alcohol than their own children's education. This article showed more about the struggles of Native Americans not just affecting the families but also their education. In modern day, Native Americans still live like this and people seem to not even know about the truly bad life they have.
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ReplyDeleteIn this article written by Alexia campbell, she discusses all of the hardships that native americans went through, and still go through to this day. Campbell talks about The Indian Relocation Act of 1956, which did not force native americans to leave the land, but it made it harder for them to stay with lack of federal funding for schools, hospitals and basic needs. which led to poverty and native americans relationship with drugs, and alcohol begun. Chavanna Rodriguez an after school student at Little Earths Youth center says, “A lot of people are struggling and hurt, and it lets them escape”, which shows still to this day indians are struggling and hurt.
ReplyDeletethe one thing that i found interesting is that how he gave up on trying to fight like he had lost pride. he was done with how his people were living.it talks about relocation by the federal gov. and how families were pushed onto reservations. the gov. lacked funding for schools, hospitals and basic needs. this is what stood out to me and what was different in my eyes, and what i felt like the article was about.
ReplyDeletethe one thing that i found interesting is that how he gave up on trying to fight like he had lost pride. he was done with how his people were living.it talks about relocation by the federal gov. and how families were pushed onto reservations. the gov. lacked funding for schools, hospitals and basic needs. this is what stood out to me and what was different in my eyes, and what i felt like the article was about.
ReplyDeleteThe most interesting part of this article is the governments role. The government either pretended or actually thought what they were doing was a good thing when it was the complete opposite of what the Native Americans wanted. The government took advantage of the Native Americans and fed on their unintelligent. One crazy statistic I found was that they have a 27% poverty rate. The population of Native Americans is already small, which makes the statistic even more of a shock. Native Americans have a sad history of alcohol and drug abuse. It is hard for the young kids and adults to aspire to anything but that. DUe to this mentality, they will never break the poverty cycle.
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