ethnic studies and native American studies

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the required readings are

  1. Child, Brenda. Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000.
  2. Miranda, Deborah A. Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir. Heyday Press, 2013.
  3. Smith, Paul Chaat and Robert Allen Warrior. Like A Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee.New York: The New Press, 1996. Important books!!!

Q1 - Assimilation on the reservations- How were adults treated when they tried withholding their children from going to school? How did Native people keep their languages, ceremonies, traditions while on the reservations? Please be specific.

Q2 - What is the Boldt decision (aka. U.S. v. Washington)? Please be specific. How many tribes were involved? What was the court’s decision?

Q3. Alcatraz- what year did it take place and why? what was the objective and outcome(s)Please be specific?

Q4 -.What is the VAWA? And how does this law affect tribal jurisdiction? Please be specific.?

Q5 -. Wounded Knee II- what year did it take place and why? What was the objective and outcome(s)Please be specific?


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Ethnic and native American studies
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Question 1
The US government forcibly assimilated Native people by forcing their children to attend
Indian boarding schools. Adults withholding children from going to school made the Bureau of
Indian Affairs authorities to withhold annuities and rations as obligated by the treaty. Equally,
the offenders were jailed or were denied their treaty rights to free food, land, and clothing (Child,
2000).
Somewhat, the reservation system had loopholes that enabled indigenous Indians people
to keep some of their ceremonies, languages, and other traditions. Some, violently resisted
suppression by the government, such as the Native American Indians. The Ghost dance tradition,
for example, thrived under the leadership of Wovoka. Conversely, tribes were permitted to form
tribal councils, as well as courts, which enabled them to retain their native and traditional
governing structures that promoted observance of Natives traditions (Child, 2000).
Equally, some Indians inter-married with the whites, therefore, they could secretly
maintain some of their cultural practices. Others escaped from the punishment orchestrated by
the federal government, and as a result could speak their language and maintain their traditions in
secrecy (Child, 2000). Finally, some of boarding schools were closed to allow children mingle
with parents, which helped advance their cultural practices in which ceremonies, traditions, and
language are constituted.
Question 2
The Boldt decision is the 1974 US District Court case that sought to settle on the Indian
tr...


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