I also liked ending with this reading. Nice to wrap up with more recent things. Also horribly depressing though since things haven’t changed much. The book was a 20,000 year history and it’s like the same thing is just happening over and over again…I can’t remember who said this but someone said the end of the chapter seemed more hopeful, and I do agree with that. Things are obviously still not ok, but it seems like we’re moving from situations like “Ok, you guys are being moved. Go move. Now.” towards situations where Native Americans get a chance to bring their issues to the public, maybe get listened to a little, but still usually don’t get what they want or need.
I really liked reading about AIM too. I mean, violence is never a fun thing, and I don’t like thinking like this but there has been so much violence against Native Americans, and it’s gone pretty unseen…So some violence in an attempt to stop all the shit that happens against them almost seems ok. Not totally ok because it’s still violence, but they got people’s attention which was a huge step and really needed to be done.
Question…Do you think they could have got people’s attention in the same way if they were more tame?
-I found all that stuff about going to Alcatraz strangely symbolic because I mean its an island that was a jail. I don't know I just thpught that was weird
-Throughout a lot of this book and other things weve read I've been thinking how weird it is that a lot of this isn't common knowlege by now when it should be. It kind of upsets me that they've avoided all this so much in school. The 2 pages where it was basically was just listing all theese things that happened in the 70's that I had learned about, why was this not one of them? I understand why they wouldn't want to teach us about all the war and violence and such in elementary school but it seems like Native Americans should be one of the giant units done in middle school.
-Do you think it's less common to learn about a lot of Native American vs. US stuff in School because the US is embarrassed because a lot of it is still going on now?
This reading was not the reading I was hoping for as our last reading unfortunately. I was hoping to read that perhaps native americans were making advances!! pushing for civil rights! Gaining New liberties! and pursuing happiness! but err… thats kinda not what is happening… at all. This last chapter unfortunately basically hammered home, for me, that native americans still feel like strangers in their own country. As celina mentioned, yes native americans are becoming lawyers and are able to represent their people, but unfortunately that did not give me any feeling that things were getting particularly better for native american people. I thought what Kai said really opened my eyes. It has been 20,000 YEARS. Much older than this country much older then well er…… most things, yet, Native Americans still can't catch a break! I have to say throughout the course of this class my respect for Native American people has been growing each day by leaps and bounds. The fact that have peresevered through what I would consider, the worst shows their strenght. I hope that as i grow up Native American people will gain more respect, however, with 20,000 year track record of pain, things are not looking good
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