- Most Natives did not have enough money as other races had, and so were considered as the 'poorer' people in the world. Tribes who a casino, much like the Mashantucket Pequots of Connecticut who own the casino Foxwoods are indeed rich. Not a lot of many Native Americans own productive casino. 48 tribes only make more than 10 million dollars a year on gambling. Looking at how the indians were know as being the poorest people in the world,it was because of those two tribes that changed peoples view entirely.
2. What is the most significant problem of trying to understand the condition of the modern Native American population?
It is a bit tricky to understand, because there are so many within the Native group whom of which belonged to more than five-hundred tries. For each tribe there is a different history to understand, a different path from where each tribe came from and therefore causes a great deal of difficultly.
3. In what ways are Native Americans a unique minority group in the United States? Do these reasons seem justified today, or should Native Americans be considered as a "regular" minority group (like African Americans, Asian Americans, women, etc.)?
They were considered a unique group, because they were the only form of a minority group that signed the peace treaty with the United States government and the only ethic group with a government agency. The Natives should
4. Please find 4 specific examples of the sorts of events generalized in this paragraph. For each specific example, include a hyperlink to a website explaining the specific event, and a summary of that event.
* http://law.jrank.org/pages/22786/Native-Americans-Treaty-making-before-1871.html
- The United States made more than 400 treaties with the Native Americans tribes in the 1820's because they wanted to secure their borders with the Native Americans
* http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Where_did_the_Native_Americans_originally_live_in_America
- The Cherokees were a Native tribe that lived in the Western part of the U.S until the whites came over and kicked the Native Americans out of that area. The Cherokee people even had a treaty to keep them safe.
* http://www.nospank.net/n-e36.htm
- Native American children were sent to boarding schools run by the government away from their home where it was a bad place for them to be because they would get horrible beatings.
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_reservation
5. What is meant by the phrase 'diseases of the poor'? What is the relationship between economics and health implied by that phrase?
Natives were at the bottom of the pecking order, and surely weren't making the same amount as the Americans; if half. The phrase above means that Native Am. couldn't afford to take care of themselves, unlike the rest of the people with decent paying jobs and money, the natives were stuck with a title that people forever known. Therefore, causing the Natives to turn to alcohol, which only induces the problem.
6. Is John McCain correct in his assessment of the treatment of Native Americans? Why?
I didn't think he was right to say what he did: It's not a national disgrace. Much could be done for the Natives, yes, but when you've got children of your own its hard to spare money when its sparse as is.
7. Please define each of the following terms in the context of Native American policy:
- removal - To change residence
- allotment - a portion or thing granted
- termination - an end or extremity
- relocation - to move to a different location
- assimilation - The process whereby a minority group adopts the custom of the prevailing culture
- self determination - freedom to live as one chooses.
8. Finally, give a paragraph summary on what self determination means, and why it either is, or is not, the appropriate policy for Native American people with respect to the Federal government.
What the Natives should learn is how to take care of themselves, and be able to stand up on their feet. Self-determination was lacking and the Indians, try as they might, could not take things into their own hands and progress forward. The Government has its hands so tight around the tribe and ruling it their way and not the Natives. By making war, treaties and permitting them to own land collectively; forcing them onto reservations, then off of them. Children boarding schools hundreds of a miles from their home, closing those schools down and sending the children elsewhere. Everything that happened to the Native Americans was because of the Government, they had no say in what was to happen to them.
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