Policing any community will have many challenges, but policing alongside a Native American tribe can add additional challenges other areas may not experience. In the past Native Americans have had problems with the U.S. government seriously and repeatedly disregarded Indian rights that were guaranteed in the form of binding treaties. To Native American’s police officers have been a symbol of rigid and authoritarian governmental control. They view the justice system as not to be trusted because of the breaches of treaties and contracts. With such tarnished views of the justice system and those who work for it, policing alongside a Native American tribe can face additional problems and challenges. How Native American’s and Americans communicate …show more content…
This behavior is highly valued in Native American culture and being silent is truly a virtue (Shusta, Levine, Wong, Olson, & Harris, 2015). When law enforcement encounters Native Americans, they may mistake their resistance to talk as sullenness or lack of cooperation (Shusta, Levine, Wong, Olson, & Harris, 2015). This can be misinterpreted or taken personally. Most American culture encourage open expression of opinions when Native American culture encourages calmness and emotional control. In addition, an officer must be very careful not to interrupt when an Indian is speaking because it is seen as a very aggressive behavior and avoided whenever it is possible. It’s important to remember their culture and traits must be understood as normal behavior, action, or attitude and is not to be taken as a personal insult when its differs from our …show more content…
English is often a second language for many and those who cannot speak English at all may be inhibited from speaking. Native Americans also speak quietly and nonforcefully. With this thought in mind, law enforcement needs to be extra patient when asking questions and be sure to allow extra time for discussions. Those who do not speak English well need additional time to translate from their native language to English when formulating their response (Shusta, Levine, Wong, Olson, & Harris, 2015). With most languages words often do not translate well from their own language to English. In addition, many concepts also do not translate well from one language to another. Native American language is highly regarded and reflects a unique view on the world. It is best for an officer to show respect when they speak their native language and do not force them to only speak English in public. Furthermore, Native Americans have a long history of forced assimilation into modern society and many were dined the right to speak their native language (Shusta, Wong, Olson, & Harris,
After reading this article so many thoughts go through my head. Officers are humans just like an individual who does not wear that uniform. Police officers go duty each and everyday not knowing what to expect and worried about if they are going to make it back home to their families. Communication in law enforcement is a very important fact when dealing with civilians. It is important that Police officers build relationships with individuals in the community, because it will help those in the community to have more trust and confidence in those who are to protect and serve.
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Native Americans have been fighting to keep their culture since the beginning of their contact with settlers in America. For this assignment, I watched the documentary, "Horse Tribe", and the documentary, "Language Healers". Both documentaries were made in 2014 and they both talked about different tribes trying to regain a sense of their culture. For the purposes of this assignment, I will analyze the different documentaries and assess the struggles that each group faced in their efforts to preserve their cultures.
In the 30 years after the Civil War, although government policy towards Native Americans intended to shift from forced separation to integration into American society, attempts to "Americanize" Indians only hastened the death of their culture and presence in the America. The intent in the policy, after the end of aggression, was to integrate Native Americans into American society. Many attempts at this were made, ranging from offering citizenship to granting lands to Indians. All of these attempts were in vain, however, because the result of this policies is much the same as would be the result of continued agression.
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Pages one to sixty- nine in Indian From The Inside: Native American Philosophy and Cultural Renewal by Dennis McPherson and J. Douglas Rabb, provides the beginning of an in-depth analysis of Native American cultural philosophy. It also states the ways in which western perspective has played a role in our understanding of Native American culture and similarities between Western culture and Native American culture. The section of reading can be divided into three lenses. The first section focus is on the theoretical understanding of self in respect to the space around us. The second section provides a historical background into the relationship between Native Americans and British colonial power. The last section focus is on the affiliation of otherworldliness that exist between
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In the context of our reading this week regarding cultural diversity within our criminal justice system, I found it very interesting in how the indigenous justice paradigm conflicts with the present day system. In many aspects, there are two dual justice systems in operation here: indigenous paradigm and the criminal justice system. We will examine the two systems differences, as well as, determine if there are any principles of the Native American paradigm that compliments the mainstream correctional initiative.
You might think that black intolerance has stopped but as of lately, it’s been a rise with police.
American policing originated from early English law and is profoundly influenced by its history. Early law enforcement in England took on two forms of policing, one of which heavily influenced modern policing and it is known as the watch (Potter, 2013). The watch consisted, at first, of volunteers which had to patrol the streets for any kind of disorder including crime and fire. After men attempted to get out of volunteering by paying others, it became a paid professional position (Walker & Katz, 2012). The three eras of policing in America are shaped by these early ideas and practices of law enforcement. Throughout time, sufficient improvements and advancements have been made from the political era to the professional era and finally the community era which attempts to eliminate corruption, hire qualified officers and create an overall effective law enforcement system.
Protect and Serve,those are the words that should most commonly appear when speaking of the police force within our country, but since its introduction into our society policing has yet to entirely fulfill those duties.Minorities have been a target of unfair treatment and brutality,as many Slave Patrolling citizens became those who would enforce the law of the land. Instead of policing being a direct response to crime, it originally became a response to urbanization and to ensure an orderly workforce as well as to control those who were deemed to be inferior.
There's a solid case that the issue with policing isn't really the police. There’s nothing wrong with the concept of the police it looks good on paper for some people, but in reality the police are just upholding the majority rule will. However, the genuine advantages of this umbrella term we've named "police change"-decriminalization, duty to diminishing jail populaces and group oversight, to give some examples- can in any case be impactful, if not exactly a cure-all. Keeping that in mind, the Center for Popular Democracy and Policy Link, two philanthropic promotion associations, have banded together with different nonconformists and road level coordinators to locate some solid answers for this issue. The outcome is a 15-point report, titled Building from the Ground Up: A Toolkit for Promoting Justice in Policing, which Mic has integrated beneath to recognize the solid strides natives and nearby governments can take to influence
In the United States police brutality has been a issue that has been existing for a long time, but it is getting worst every year. No matter what city it is, police officers are the biggest fear to Hispanic and African-American communities. In this paper, I'm going to talk about the history of police brutality, analyze divergent viewpoints and what can be done to stop it. Police brutality is a serious and important issue because nowadays there's a lot of cases where a police officer seriously injures or shoots someone for no good reason. Police brutality violates the 8th amendment because they don’t have the right to punish someone in a cruel and unusual way. Police officer's job is to protect the community not to be feared by them. Therefore
The Contemporary Issues in Native American Culture provides a lot of varied topics and interests. In this paper, the main issue will be the topic of tribal language preservation. How tribes are able to raise money to enhance language efforts, how tribes are working to preserve the language, and how tribes are using language to maintain cultural awareness and identity will be discussed.