In “Philip Martin (Choctaw) Discusses the Challenges of Economic Development, 1988” the main author is Philip Martin. It is only clear that he is the author due to his name being stated in the articles title. This document is written in 1998 but he tends to jump around in timeliness. He jumps around in timeliness because he need to establish how horrible conditions were on the reservation before the economic change. The authors main purpose of writing this article is to show the drastic change in their reservation. Martin states, “The region as a whole is economically underdeveloped; and for many years the Choctaw people were at the bottom of the economic and social ladders” (487). This quote shows the neglect the tribe has received from the …show more content…
The basic needs are: inadequate nutrition, lack of income, low educational levels, and lack of employment. He also points out that, “[they] were the first tribe to obtain a federal indirect cost rate to finance the management of the tribal government” (Martin 488). This is one of the major factors of the Choctaw success in economic change. There next step was establishing stability and efficiency in their government which was established by hiring more tribal members. This step helped in lowering unemployment but it was not nearly enough. Philip Martin states, “All economic development involves risk, but the Packard Electric Division of General Motors; in agreeing to assist us in opening a wiring harness assembly plant on the reservation…” (489). He acknowledges that this was a risky step on their part due to them having no experience or
The Muckleshoot are a Native American tribe are a part of the Coast Salish people. their territory can be found located in Washington. They are recognized as the Muckleshoot Tribe, they are composed of generations of different tribal groups who inherited Puget Sound areas and occupied river drainages from the rivers confluence in Auburn to their reservations in the Cascades.
According to Tyler Troudt once said, “The past cannot be changed forgotten to edit or erased it can only be accepted.” In the book The Lakota Way, it is talking about all the old stories that no one talks about anymore. Some of the stories are about respect, honor, love, sacrifice, truth, bravery. Joseph M. Marshall III wrote this story so that young adults around the world and mainly the Lakota people know their culture, so they knew all the stories about the people long ago. What the author is writing about is all information that today’s generation will never know about the stories because most of the elder that even knew or know the stories have passed away or the young people just are not interested in listening to them anymore.
The mosh is an awesome place in Downtown Jacksonville; where everyone can learn some interesting facts about our city, how the body works , what animals are in the ocean and etc. I visited the Timucua Indian exhibit; I learned a lot of intriguing information that I didn’t know before. I learned how the Timucua Indians first came about, how the Indians lived and survived during this time period. This exhibit also showed me how the Indians looked and the way they did things. Being able to learn about the Timucua Indians is so fascinating to me.
Modern day Native American are widely known as stewards of the environment who fight for conservation and environmental issues. The position of the many Native American as environmentalists and conservationists is justified based on the perception that before European colonists arrived in the Americas, Native Americans had little to no effect on their environment as they lived in harmony with nature. This idea is challenged by Shepard Krech III in his work, The Ecological Indian. In The Ecological Indian, Krech argues that this image of the noble savage was an invented tradition that began in the early 1970’s, and that attempts to humanize Native Americans by attempting to portray them as they really were. Krech’s arguments are criticized by Darren J Ranco who in his response, claims that Krech fails to analyze the current state of Native American affairs, falls into the ‘trap’ of invented tradition, and accuses Krech of diminishing the power and influence of Native Americans in politics. This essay examines both arguments, but ultimately finds Krech to be more convincing as Krech’s
The land of the Native Indians had been encroached upon by American settlers. By the
Have you ever heard of the Powhatan tribe? If not let me share a little fact about them. Powhatan means “waterfall” in the Virginia Algonquian language. The Powhatans didn't live in tepees. They lived in small roundhouses called wigwams, or in larger Iroquois-style longhouses. Another fact is Powhatan warriors used tomahawks or wooden war clubs. They also carried shields. Powhatan hunters used bows and arrows. If you would like to learn more about the Powhatan tribe please continue reading this paper. You will learn all about the Powhatan and how they lived. Enjoy.
Banks, D., Erodes, R. (2004). Dennis Banks and the Rise of the American Indian Movement. Ojibwa Warrior. Retrieved January 20, 2005, from http://www.oupress.com/bookdetail.asp?isbn=0-8061-3580-8
Colonel Nelson A. Miles, Fifth Infantry “was the commander of one of the army columns in the first battle of the Red River campaign. Photo Courtesy of Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum.”
During his stop at the trading post he asks a local Native American what life will be like on the reservation for the next 30 days, and what could he expect? Morgan was told he would see a lot of poverty; the local went on to say the some of the Navajo people are without...
In the Great Planes of America there was a tribe of Indians known as the Arapaho Indians. There is little documentation as to when or where they came from but it is known they were in many different places in the Midwest including Oklahoma, Wyoming, Kansas and Colorado. The Arapaho Indians were nomadic people who survived on hunting buffalo and gathering. This tribe was greatly changed when they were introduced to horses. The horses provided them a new way to hunt battle and travel. The horse became the symbol and center of Arapaho nomadic life: people traded for them, raided for them, defined wealth in terms of them and made life easier.
Once more, this block quote is unaccompanied by any analysis, Ouranda instead moving on to detail the other Native American representatives at the inauguration, leaving the reader to believe that the quote stands for itself. Regardless of the accuracy of which the New York Post journalist transcribed and published Reginald’s quote, Ouranda declines to address the cognitive dissonance of a Menominee leader that echoes the sentiment of white supremacists. Moreover, Ouranda’s treatment of Reginald Oshkosh de-legitimizes him as a leader, never once referring to him as a chief (as he was at the time of the inauguration) and allowing quotes that describe his defining feature as distinctly indigenous to be reprinted without skepticism. Later on when referring to a socio-economic crisis the Menominee Indians attempted to solve (which was not identified to be under the leadership of Chief Reginald Oshkosh as it truly was), Ouranda shifts the leadership capacity of Reginald to the tribe as a whole, recounting that ““Following the Meriam Commission’s recommendation[s of strategies to improve conditions among the tribe], the Menominees quickly issued a press release, prepared by Chief Reginald
“From across a freezing Montana battlefield on October 5, 1877, Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce rode into the camp of U.S. Army Colonel Nelson Miles and surrendered his rifle. ‘Hear me, my chiefs. I am tired,’ he said. ‘My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever.’ With those words he ended the war between 750 Nez Perce–500 of them women, children, and elderly–and 2,000 soldiers, a four-month battle that had ranged across 1,200 miles. “I am tired of fighting,” he told Miles. “Our chiefs are killed. The old men are all dead. He who led the young men [my brother] is dead. It is cold and we have no blankets. The little children are freezing to death. My people, some of them, have run away to the hills and have no blankets, no food. No one knows where they are--perhaps freezing to death. I want to
...ough his words refer to historical sources, they also apply to Douglas Monroy himself. Unveiling the intricacies of cultural interactions is a difficult task, and Monroy successfully reveals many of the complexities and contradictions of historical writing. However, he does not escape the tendency to create homogenous ?others.? Portions of his book, such as the treatment of Indians at the mission, are questionable. Although he maintains that his underlying theme is labor relations, the depth with which he writes about law and society seem to dictate a more holistic analysis. Labor relations among conflicting cultures may create history, but believing that history does not create labor relations seems unconvincingly economically determinist.
Sandefur, G. (n.d.). American Indian reservations: The first underclass areas? Retrieved April 28, 2014, from http://www.irp.wisc.edu/publications/focus/pdfs/foc121f.pdf
of Native American Culture as a Means of Reform,” American Indian Quarterly 26, no. 1