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In the class, we watched the documentary film called “Super Chief,” which documented mainly the election process of the new leadership for the Ojibwe tribe in Minnesota, covering multiple aspects of how the tribe’s life was, such as their political, social and economic workings. As of now, there are seven reservations, or communities, for American Indians in Minnesota and one of them happens to be the Ojibwe tribe. Each reservation was actually not the land that was given by the U.S. federal government. Those segments of land belonged to American Indians, or tribes, because they had lived there before the Europeans came to colonize the American continent. There are hundreds of these kinds of reservations in 35 states in the U.S., and there …show more content…
are boundaries to get into these reservations. These reservations were created after the treaty that was made in 1871. By 1830, all of the American Indians were relocated to the reservations by the Indian Removal Act. After that, the U.S. government had a strong control over the reservations until 1968. The Tribal Self-Determination period began, which allowed the American Indian people to have their own control over the reservations as a result of the Indian Civil Rights Movement. Specifically, the Ojibwe tribe had originally resided on the east coast, Wakayama 2 but because of the Indian Removal Act, they had to find a new place to live and ended up migrating to the northern part of Minnesota, where they reside today. Nowadays, the Ojibwe tribe have obtained their own control over their reservations and they were united under one leadership, Chip Wadena.
Chip Wadena was the former chief of the Ojibwe tribe and he ruled the reservations for more than 20 years. Life in the Ojibwe tribe’s reservation is not quite great. Many people there have to live in mobile homes and they have limited access to electricity and internet. People in the reservation are mostly isolated from the rest of the United States. Since their reservation has boundaries from the U.S., the U.S. government has no control over their land. Therefore, everything was built by their own people on the reservation including hospitals and vital …show more content…
buildings. One of the vital buildings that they built was the casino.
The casino was built on the reservation, which is one of the poorest areas in Minnesota. The casino was established for the sake of creating more jobs and bringing money to the area. However, most of the jobs in the casino were taken by Americans and only a small amount of the Ojibwe tribe people on the reservation were hired at the Casino, and most of them just got a part time job with minimum wages. Therefore, for the people of the Ojibwe Tribe, the casino was not as beneficial as they thought. Another reason why the casino was built on the reservation was that the casino in the reservation did not have to pay state tax since the reservation was outside of the U.S. federal government’s control. The only one who received all the benefits from building Casino was the former chief, Chip Wadena. He was basically a dictator in the reservation. People in the Ojibwe tribe reservation were not only living in poor conditions, but also, they were not given
any Wakayama 3 information regarding the revenue of the casino. Therefore, all the profits were taken by Chip Wadena and he abused his power to get all that he wanted. He used all his power to threaten people and kept dictating by using fears and intimidations. After I watched that part of the documentary, I felt that the reservation was almost ran with the idea of communism. Finally, people were fed up with old chief, Chip Wadena’s governing, and the election for the new chief was taken place. People realized that after Chip Wadena’s governing for the past 20 years, they did not yet seen any improvement of their life. Chip Wadena did not try to share his wealth with the people, making the tribe system corrupted. The old chief thought he would still be reelected as the chairman of the tribe, but at the end, the new chief was elected with just 14 votes difference. People on the reservation seemed quite happy after the new leader of their tribe was elected, and that was where the documentary was ended. The documentary was actually filmed 20 years ago from now. The question would be what may have happened after this election. It has been 20 years since the new chairman of the Ojibwe tribe was elected. My guess is that new chief tried to fix the political system within the reservation for the first couple of years as he claimed in the election process. However, after being in the chairman’s position for a while, I think the new leader might have started abusing his power to collect his own wealth again as the former chief did, because it is not easy to change the small tribe’s corrupted political system once the corruption was established. Overall, I enjoyed watching the documentary. I had their heard of the Ojibwe tribe and any American Indian’s tribe reservations in the U.S. before watching it, so it was interesting to learn about their live situations and their political, social and economic aspects of their life.
into the Native American way of life and some of the hardships that can befall the victims
In “Tecumseh and the Quest for Indian Leadership”, Tecumseh and the many Indian tribes in west America spent years fighting for their land and trying to keep their culture alive. The story illustrates cultural aspects of the period through elucidating the important figure
When the word “Native American” is mentioned, the first thing most people will think of is Indian gaming. As many people know, only Native Americans can conduct gaming while people from other ethnicity cannot. This leads to the belief that it is an indirect way for the American government to repay the tribal government for taking their lands. This is partially true. The right to conduct gaming on reservations begins with the Indian Gaming Regulation Act (IGRA). Since its establishment in 1988, hundreds of tribes are able to negotiate an agreement with the governments to operate casinos on reservation lands. However, this is not the only intention of IGRA. Although Congress says that the real purpose of IGRA is to allow Indians to open casinos so tribes can support themselves, it is merely a set of laws that limits the tribe’s right on gaming.
The land of the Native Indians had been encroached upon by American settlers. By the
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First, the American government made reservations to separate American settlers and Native Americans in an effort to acquire more land from the Indians and hopefully try to stop conflict. Unfortunately for the Native Americans by the late 1800’s settlers were
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Lakota Woman Essay In Lakota Woman, Mary Crow Dog argues that in the 1970’s, the American Indian Movement used protests and militancy to improve their visibility in mainstream Anglo American society in an effort to secure sovereignty for all "full blood" American Indians in spite of generational gender, power, and financial conflicts on the reservations. When reading this book, one can see that this is indeed the case. The struggles these people underwent in their daily lives on the reservation eventually became too much, and the American Indian Movement was born. AIM, as we will see through several examples, made their case known to the people of the United States, and militancy ultimately became necessary in order to do so.
In our day and age where our youth are becoming more aware of the history of the country and the people who inhabit it, the culture of Native Americans has become more accessible and sparks an interest in many people young and old. Recent events, like the Dakota Access Pipeline, grab the attention of people, both protesters and supporters, as the Sioux tribe and their allies refuse to stay quiet and fight to protect their land and their water. Many Native people are unashamed of their heritage, proud of their culture and their ancestors. There is pride in being Native, and their connection with their culture may be just as important today as it was in the 1800’s and before, proving that the boarding school’s ultimate goal of complete Native assimilation to western culture has
The United States of American is a country that was previously inhabited before the European Anglo-Saxons came across that Atlantic Ocean. It was a nation of independent people, multiple tribes in many places both those who made one place their home year round and others who traveled with the seasons. In the middle of this big island laid a land that belonged to the Osage tribe, and what a mighty tribe it was and still is. In the 17th century the original Osage tribe separated from the Sioux their language almost extinct belongs to the Siouan family, few Osage still speak this native language. This tribe is federally recognized by the United States Government and the majority of the tribal members are located on the Osage Reservation in north-central Oklahoma, but members of this tribe are throughout North America.
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In approaching this topic, I first realized that I need to look up some general information about Native Americans in the United States. According to the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), there are approximately 564 federally recognized tribes in the United States today (Who we are, n.d). This group does not include tribes that do not have federal recognition but are recognized at the state level.
He referred to the reservation as an experiment, noting in a letter that it was a “very important and interesting experiment in colonizing the wild Indians of New Mexico.” Under Carleton, the ‘colonization’ of Native Americans was intended as a process of transformation, rather than exploitation of the tribes as a resource. So concerned about the exploitation of the reservation’s residents, Carleton even forbid the sale of produce grown on the reservation to outsiders, preferring that the food be used to sustain the Native Americans. Despite his refusal to see the interned tribes exploited in the development of the territory, this process of ‘civilizing’ Native Americans was, in his mind, tied directly to the wealth of the territories which he oversaw. Carleton noted in another letter his hopes that the government would likewise see the benefit in Bosque Redondo stating, “The government seems to have taken great interest in this experiment of placing nomadic Indians on reservations, and this exodus of Navajo people from their country, to become a domesticated race, is an interesting subject to us all, and one fraught with great questions so far as the prospective wealth and advancement of New Mexico may
One thing that stood out to me was an instance when I wondered who was in charge. When Suzy Song called to inform the family of Arnold’s passing she makes the comment that she was “making the arrangements” for the deceased, but that someone should come and retrieve his belongings. This made me wonder how a non-family member was able to make such decisions. As far as I know the authorities have to contact and release remains to a family member, so it got me to thinking if the Indians’ culture was different, in that such matters were allowed to be taken care of by a friend. If this were true, the type of government system they have set up is totally different from that of the United States. When Arlene makes Victor promise to come back after retrieving his father’s remains, he asks if he needs to sign something as a promise and she refuses, insinuating that Indians don’t like to sign papers. It all left me wondering what types of community resources the people had, or didn’t have. It also gives rise to questions as to whether there was a form of government, and if so, how basic or detailed it
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