Native American Youths: A Community Analysis

This dark period in American history had serious impact on communities, but the current state of Amerindian culture is still encouraging. From the 1970s, there was what it is called a little awkwardly "indigenous awakening". Several leaders then took over the rebuilding of their community to come out of colonialism. They argued for a return to traditional culture, a lifestyle inspired by that of their ancestors. It was so busy rebuild communities from traditional cultural and spiritual values. It is part of the healing process in communities. Since then among indigenous peoples, the emphasis on the promotion of culture and traditional spirituality. Some areas of social life have been reconfigured in this direction. Indian communities try to

The communities do not want to be marginalized from today’s society, on the contrary, they have both feet in, rather they seek to do is rebuilding their ethnical identity, that is to say, to appropriate according to their values and priorities. Reed Karaim, an experienced writer and journalist in North Dakota and author of Native American Youths: Can new federal programs improves their lives?” (April 24, 2015), reports that The White House recognizes “there is a history of deeply troubling and destructive federal policies and actions that have hurt Native communities, exacerbated severe inequality and accelerated the loss of tribal cultural traditions”. As a result, treaties and passed laws became the legal norm between the government and Native Americans, which were served to establish forced relationships between the conquerors and the conquered. Forced displacement experienced by Indian tribes represented a common form of cultural discrimination for the fact that they were living on their lands

However, the White House recognizes that Native American citizens “are far more likely than their non-Native peers to grow up in poverty, to suffer from severe health problems, and to face obstacles to educational opportunity.” That is why means of education and better resources for all Native American children are studied and implemented to ensure a better equality of chance. The challenges of Indian education are multiple such as taking into account one individual’s cultural heritage to cope it with living in a global world. Governments, Indian organizations and even us as citizens we should call for the reconciliation. Reconciliation must allow indigenous peoples to regain their self-esteem and to establish with non-indigenous peoples of relations based on mutual respect. It emphasizes the educational component for young Indian generations: it is better to know their history and culture; people have to work to demolish stereotypes. Governments clearly has a responsibility to support this development, this is a shared responsibility. The solutions will be implemented in partnership. We