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1. Use evidence to describe the economic impact of casino ownership and gambling on Native American tribes.
Most Indian's are poor and the ones that aren't own casinos. The ones that own casinos make money on gambling. "Less than a quarter of America's 557 Indian tribes own casinos, and only 48 tribes earn more than $10 million a year on gaming." The economic impact is that the Indians had to conform and build a casino just to live a normal life. The ones that live on reserve get sick and are unemployed. Indians that "live on reservations, have the highest rates of poverty, unemployment and disease of any ethnic group in America."
2. What is the most significant problem of trying to understand the condition of the modern Native American population?
America "generalize about 2 million people who belong to more than 500 different tribes, each with its own history, each living in different circumstances -- peoples as varied as the Navajo of the Southwestern desert and the Lummi of Puget Sound." The biggest problem is that we put tribes in to one group(Indians), but they are different from each other. Its like saying that a grape is a orange just because they are fruits.
3. In what ways are Native Americans a unique minority group in the United States? Do these reasons seem justified?
"They constitute the only minority group in America that has signed peace treaties with the U.S. government, the only ethnic group with a government agency -- the Bureau of Indian Affairs -- specifically devoted to its well-being." They have there own Bureau in the United States Government, that helps there well being. They are the only ones that have signed a peace treaties with the United States. They are unique because they have all these things that other ethnic groups don't have. I think that this is justified because they were here first. I know that was a long time ago but the Chinese were here first and neither were the African people. So I think that the reasons seem justified.
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.
This web site tells you how the Native Americans were forced to sigh the treaties and latter how the Americans broke the treaties.
This web site talks about how the Indian land was taken from them and how the Indians were forced to live on reserves.
3. Dispatching their children to boarding schools hundreds of miles from home
This web site is a Indian lady telling her story of being sent to a boarding school. In this place she was beaten and mistreated.
4. Increasing funding for the BIA and, in fiscal 1996
This web site is Federal history web site and talks about how they were going to use the money and why they wanted the money. It also talks about other financial events in federal history.
5. What is meant by the phrase 'diseases of the poor'? What is the relationship between economics and health implied by that phrase?
Diseases of the poor means that diseases the usually people with a low income get. More to do with hygiene is what comes to my mind. "And Indians are far more liable to succumb to diseases associated with the poor -- four times as likely to die of alcoholism, three times as likely to die of tuberculosis, nearly twice as likely to die of diabetes." The relationship is this part is saying that people who are poor are more likely to get sick. Because they have no money to pay for a doctor to tell them to take this pill to get rid of like the chickenpox or a vaccination.
6. Is John McCain correct in his assessment of the treatment of Native Americans? Why?
Yes, because we took there home. Earlier in this essay it stated that
"Over the last 150 years, the government has tried a series of conflicting ways of dealing with the natives of this continent -- making war on them, making treaties with them, breaking treaties with them, sending them to Oklahoma, forcing them onto reservations, forcing them off reservations" We treat them like dirt and then try to make up for it, then mess it all up again.
7. Please define each of the following terms in the context of Native American policy:
- removal- Native Americans were pulled away form there home forcibly.
- allotment- Native Americans were put on a descanted piece of land called reserves.
- termination- The Native Americans were taken out by the french.
- relocation- Native American reserves, moved to land.
- assimilation- The Native Americans were formed to be like the Americans and not who they were.
- self-determination- The Native Americans had to be motivated and determined to get money for the BIA.
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.
Self determination is when you personally are determined to go do something that you want to do. Its like being motivated for something. You are pumped to do what has to be done and will do what ever you have to so that you can get or hit your goal. If the Native American people are determined to respect the Federal government then I think its appropriate. Even though the Federal Government has hurt the Indian Nations doesn't mean that they have to hate American. Its good that the Native Americans what to Respect a country that didn't want to respect them. The golden rule that every one is taught is treat others the way you want to be treated. So if the Native Americans want to have self determined to have respect when they have never been respected is the way to be.
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