Native American Struggles

Native Americans were the first American citizens, but ever since explorers discovered America they have had a prejudice towards them. Throughout the years the Natives have endured racism, the Trail of Tears, being stuck on a reservation, and ultimately being marginalized. Native’s who live on reservations feel discriminated against and mistreated which makes life on one rough. The sadness and general melancholy on a reservation leads Native Americans to have severe drug and alcohol problems.

While many would assume that the meaning of race is simple and straightforward, the truth is that the meaning and significance of race is socially constructed; therefore, the best way to go about analyzing and understanding race, especially within an individual family, is by using a sociological imagination. When using a sociological imagination, one is able to identify the relationship between personal experience and social forces within a given situation and/or problem. Because of this, I’ve decided to interview David, an 18-year-old male, who was brought up in a Columbian-American household, but considers himself primarily white. Interestingly enough, the sociological concepts that was most predominate throughout the interview were white privilege and self-hatred, which was also noted in “The Race Talk” as being an important aspect to consider when discussing race. Because these concepts aren’t developed overnight, using the sociological

109. That’s the number of Native American tribes in California. One tribe that is unique to all the others is the Redding Rancheria. In Redding Rancheria, there are 3 tribes, Wintu, Yana, and Pit River. These tribes have been dealing with injustices for a very long time. A lot of them have been solved, but some are still occurring. However, Redding Rancheria is not the only tribe to be treated badly, tribes all over America have experienced the same things.

The role that power and inequality play in the broader picture of service work with Native America is complicated and brutal. White men came to America and inserted their power so much so that a land once populated by millions of indigenous peoples is now, a few hundred years later, colonized, gentrified, industrialized and completely taken over. In that time, native people were murdered, given diseases, forced to migrate, used as slave labor, forced into war, “Americanized” in violent boarding schools, stripped of any traditional ways of life and pushed on to tiny reservations that are concentrations of some of the deepest poverty in the world.

The immigration history of Asians will provide an understanding of their status in U.S. society.

The Post Reconstruction Era was the worst period ever for Native American history but it also became the upcoming rising of Native American leadership. Leaders like Red Cloud, Chief Seattle, Quanah Parker and Chief Joseph all had to settle with adapting to the American culture. For an example Red Cloud and his people the Sioux began series of fights because miners were crossing into their territory digging up their land looking for gold, they showed no respect to their environment, they even dug up to look for gold. Chief Seattle leader of the Suquamish, was upset with the way America cared for its land, he was so distraught by it he did a speech called “Nation of Nation’s”, where he talks about his land losing its beauty and how nothing there

My opinion about this chapter is that the writer had different view of Native Americans than what most Americans have today. Americans view the natives as a peaceful people when in fact they fought over land, killed their enemies and torched them they were violent in their own way but they were not as violent as the white people so in my opinion the writer was wrong about saying the Native Americans were as violent as the Americans. An other thing that in my opinion the writer was wrong was by saying the Native Americans were as wasteful by killing the buffalo as the americans were when in fact they were not. There were not as many Natives as Americans so the killing number of participants was lower and when the natives killed the buffalo it was eaten by wolves while in the American side they were not eaten by wolves. In my opinion the author had a different view of the Native Americans than what most people have.My reaction to this chapter was that I learned many new things about the Native Americans that

How does race define us? Since the end of segregation racial integration has dominated our social world. Our race has been a hot button topic. The examination of an individual on the basis of their character, culture and actions is often preceded by baseless judgement. The topic demonstrates the social flaws that we share as a society; an argument for or against the judgment of an individual on the basis or race. Regardless of an individual 's perception of the issue, both sides of the topic demonstrate compelling arguments. There are people who will debate that race is a positive and distinguishing factor in an individual 's character, culture and actions; and those who assert that race is a phenomenal tool, a motivational tool to achieve one 's success in the world.

Living in a diverse neighborhood contributed to a diverse population in the high school he attended, he recalls having many interesting diverse interactions, however, he did not reflect on them until he attended college. It was in college he became aware of the deep rooted social identities assigned. He notes, experiencing culture shock at Chino State University, similar to Cal Poly, a predominantly white student population.Though he, himself, a person of color was socialized with the assumption that black college students were disorderly and destructive, yet he experience the opposite, where white students were disorderly and destructive. Something the author, Tatum from “Can We Talk?” would define as, individuals categorizing ethnic groups on negative assumptions, including internalizing prejudice within one's ethnic groups and secondhand distorted information, noting, racism begins early and usually from historical information about “others” and stereotypical social identities. The author adds, our conceptual view of others comes from media outlets that go unchallenged by society, fostering preconceived negative judgement, thus exposure is continual. More importantly, Tatum states, “We teach what we were taught. The unexamined prejudices of the parents are passed on to the children. It is not our fault,

The accounts of the Native Americans occupation of Alcatraz demonstrate the use of persuasive rhetoric in the form of deductive and syllogistic reasoning and shows the validity behind why the Native people should fight for their independence from the U.S Government. The film argues that the Native people believed the American Government did not have their best interest in mind. In fact, they felt that the Government was denying them their basic human rights. Throughout the years, the government has stripped the Native people of their dignity, liberty, and way of life. They believed that the U.S. Government was only interested in taking what they wanted from the Native people (Trudell). The Indian People were acting on a general belief that as human beings they

Walking through the museum I’ve seen many collections of potteries, clothes, jewelries, weapons, masks, bowls, fabrics were dyed in different colors. By looking through each showcase I could tell everything they made was by hands and all of the potteries were in different shape and size, but not perfectly shaped. I think these potteries were use to store water, food or decoration in their house or they could sell it to other tribes. One of my favorite things is the jewelry; there were a lot of jewelries from earnings, necklaces, bracelets, and rings. Everything was hand made for different styles from children to young girls and even for man and women. The Native American is known for wearing much jewelry to show their culture and tradition among themselves and other tribes.

When reading the introduction from the text “Critical Race Theory Matters,” I learned some of the main principles that are discussed are that race, history, voice, interpretation, and praxis matters. First, race matters are a central structure of society nowadays and is believed that it isn’t as important because racism has been illegal for many years. “Critical race theorists (2011) believe that not only does racial inequality continue to be embedded in the legal system, but that racial inequality permeates every aspect of social life from minute, intimate relationships, to the neighborhoods we live in, and the schools we go to, all the way to the macro-economic system” (p. 3). The idea that race no longer matters clearly states that racial

America has been very unkind to the Native American. Throughout history, from Christopher Columbus’ arrival in 1492, who called the natives “Indios”, thus beginning the label of the Natives as “Indians”, to the 19th Century, a time of enormous hubris, greed, prejudice, Indians suffered enormous violence. From the foundation of the Manifest Destiny in 1845 giving white men all the privilege, while the Native’s saw their culture, and homes ripped away from them. Dee Brown’s “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee” brilliantly captures the actual truth of the plight of the Native Americans from 1860 to 1890.

If I was a Native American when the Europeans arrived I was be cautious but also curious. I had no idea that their arrival would eventually disrupt our way of life. Besides these settlers were helpless in that they couldn 't even survive the long winter on their own. However land became the main problem among us. Settler wanted more land for farming and mining. Because of this the Europeans started to force us off the land as more and more Europeans arrived and traveled

Asia Americans are a wide group of people and my knowledge of Asian-Americans still lacks tremendously. What I know about Asian-Americans vary from the different groups of Asian-Americans. I know that Asian-Americans practice Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism as religions. I love studying the meaning and principles behind such symbols in the cultures as Buddha, lotus flower, gI also know that education is big in Asia and is taken very seriously. I am to believe that Asians are very big on cultural and family values, having different beliefs and rituals that will bring good luck, prosperity, and success. The fashion and technology industries are