A reservation is a territory delimited by a federal law‚ managed by the office of Indian Affairs attached to the US Department of the Interior‚ and whose use and profit are reserved to a Native people. Reservations are only lent to their occupants and remain the property of the states under US law. Some spaces partially sold to non-Indian are sources of many administrative‚ political and legal difficulties. Half of women in reservations have been raped‚ sexual assaulted or kidnapped. According to
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hear the word Native American? And what do you think of when you hear the word education? Probably two very clear and distinct images. But what do you think of when you hear Native American education? Unless you are a Native American‚ presumably that phrase means nothing to you. But shouldn’t the education of US citizens be relevant to the government? Yes‚ and especially when there are plenty of treaties and government agencies that have established the government’s role in Native American education
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ever showed up‚ Native Americans were a happy and prosperous group of people. However‚ it would only be through the white man’s introduction that Native Americans would end up being killed‚ racially profiled‚ and put into reservations like animals. Through his book‚ Reservation Blues‚ Sherman Alexie is able to talk about not only the effects/origins of Native American hardship on the individual and collective level‚ but also how these origins affect the relationships of reservation communities with
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difficult aspect of the reservation system for Native Americans to accept and why?Consider factors such as conversion to Christianity‚ getting a formal education‚ having to speak English‚ etc. and be sure to discuss how this "acceptance" sacrificed cultural identity. For Native Americans the reservation system would destroy so much of their culture and their identity as a people‚ and the factors that led to this are many. Of the different acts that stripped Native Americans from whom they were would
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the solutions to our current world problems are found in history‚ we just have to look closely for them. Native Americans had and have very culturally different ideas that we need to utilize in order to solve these problems in America. Native Americans can teach us about political structure and about foreign policy‚ and how to handle it. They were extremely innovative and creative in their infrastructures‚ and way of life‚ they were just different from us. Native peoples conserved and minimized waste
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the book‚ poverty‚ and drunk Spokane Indians. When Junior decides to leave the reservation‚ a new experience of life is ahead of him. Junior starts attending a new school‚ Rearden. At his new school away from the reservation‚ he is different from the rest of the kids. Leaving the reservation made Junior more insecure about himself because of his surroundings but‚ he ends up being more confident in himself. Leaving the reservation‚ came from Mr. P idea because of what happened in Geometry class. In
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Research Paper Effects of Casinos on Native Reservations Do you think that casinos should be on native reservations? Is it beneficial or detrimental? Some people believe that casinos are just outrages and delirious. Casinos don’t help anybody. They just take money from people and cause them into bankruptcy. Bad things always happen in casinos. Also‚ Indian gaming isn’t fair to us because it doesn’t benefit us; it only benefits the actual reservation. Thats not true though; they are actually
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2/7/2011 Youth Suicide in Native Americans “I’m all alone nobody cares whether I live or die. All I ever do is cause problems for everyone. I can’t make it through school‚ I cause my family problems. I’m a failure in everything that is important to me. The only way out of this is to die.”(Suicide letter) This is what it must feel like to be on the verge of suicide‚ a horrible epidemic which has spread through the nation’s Native American tribe’s wildfire. Subsequently‚ suicide ranked
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Before contact with Europeans‚ Native Americans developed an effective system of informal education call aboriginal education. The system included transmitting knowledge‚ values‚ skills‚ attitudes‚ and dispositions to the next generation in real world settings such as the farm‚ at home‚ or on the hunting ground. Native American educational traditions passed on culture needed to succeed in society. Education was viewed as a way to beautify and sharpen the next generation and prepare them to take
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European invasion in America‚ Native Americans came to endure many problems. While some have faded‚ others still linger on in their lives. The issue of alcohol and alcoholism is one of them. From settlers using it to deceive‚ to today’s issues on the reservation‚ alcohol has played a devastating role in the lives of Native Americans. Knowing how the issue of alcohol became such a predominate part of Native Americans lives will allow us to spawn ideas on how to end the problem. Before the colonists arrived
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