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1. Discussion Forum Week 2: The Native American Experience
What are your reactions/thoughts about the treatment of Native Americans in the United States. Be sure to reference the assigned readings for this week to support your response.
Instructions:
Individual responses to discussion questions should be 150-200 words. Each response to classmates must follow 3CQ format: One compliment, one comment, one connection (for example, to your own experience), and one question.
2. Reflect on your thoughts and reactions to the readings assigned this week on the historical experiences of Native Americans. In your response discuss how settler colonization and the government's role in removing Natives from their homeland has shaped American history, as well as the concept of decolonization as it pertains to the Native American response to these experiences.
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The way Native Americans have been treated in the U. S. is something that deeply
troubles me when I think about it – how a whole population can be subjected to such violence,
have their culture wiped out and lose their land so systematically. It makes me feel very sad and
also angry to consider what happened during this country's history: the policies designed to
remove or assimilate native people forcibly, as well as denying them rights, all seem incredibly
brutal when we reflect upon them. As Fischer et al. points out (2023), exploitation and
marginalization have characterized European colonizers' relationship with Indigenous inhabitants
ever since they first arrived on this continent. Over time, there was theft of territory, broken
promises made in treaties, plus fighting – until things got so bad some tribes were herded onto
reservations or even killed off completely during events like the Trail Of Tears (which saw
Cherokee families expelled from lands they had farmed for generations).
The readings underscore how American policies have affected people psychologically
and culturally. One such policy was assimilation, which the government promoted via boarding
schools: by separating Native American kids from their families and forbidding the use of
Indigenous languages or practice of traditions at these facilit...