Should Native-Americans be completely self determined, or should they just be Americans like everyone else?
In a Native American studies class, just curious to see what respponses are. Should Native-Americans get special treatments assured in treaties, or should that just become a thing of the past and should be more integrated?
Personally I believe native communities and US state and fed governments should live up to the treaties. The state must help Native communities in the transition (which I feel they haven't), while at the same time having a system of treaty renewal completely ensuring the survival of Native traditions (and unfortunately due to assimilationist policies int he past, they should have a revival). What's your view?
Native people, and all people, absolutely have a right to self-determination. Taking away one's right to self-determination is an act of power and oppression. Oppression has Never been well conceived.
Natives should get their treaty rights witheld. It is a double standard for Natives to get ignorned in this respect. Not one Native treaty has been witheld in full. Supreme court decisions today are still based in blatant racism: Read "Like A Loaded Weapon."
There is no way this can become a thing of the past. Have you heard about intergenerational trauma? It is similar to PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder). It says that people pass down trauma through generations. So descendants of Holocaust survivors can still feel pain even though they didn't go through the experience themselves. This is true for Native people as well. Continued oppression helps keep this cycle going. So, quite literally the past is with us today. We cannot heal these wounds by ignoring the past.
Also, Natives do not get special treatment. Even if their treaties were witheld, this would not be special treatment. Natives are oppressed. Even with treaties witheld they wouldn't be special etc.. they would be an independent nation. Are all independent nations special? Using such words makes it seem like Natives are getting something they don't deserve.
I agree with your opinion. We need to support Native self-determination. We all need to support each other. We should teach cultural respect and understanding.
And to counteract another users post: The land bridge theory is just a theory, it has more evidence to disprove it than to prove it. Read: "Red Earth White Lies"
I am a Native woman.
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