Summary Of Racism: An Open Wound For Native Americans
Cook, Robert. "Racism: An Open Wound for Native Students." Education Week, 10 Mar. 2017, www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2015/05/06/healing-the-wounds-of-racism-old-and.html.
The article discusses an incident that happened at the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center where students and their chaperones from American Horse School on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota were insulted and verbally harassed during a minor-league hockey game. Robert Cook, the author of the article, details his discontent of this account and goes on to describe how Native Americans are not alone with being the victims of hate and vindictiveness. Furthermore, that it has more of a deeper impact on children as it affects their self-esteem and overall outlook on diversity. Robert …show more content…
It discusses how the government has overtaken Native Americans from their homelands and placed to reservations. Laws and policies prohibited tribes from practicing religious and ceremonial rituals. It explains that these laws were not revoked until after the American Indian Religious Freedom Act which protected these natives to have the ability to express their religious views freely. Overall, this suffering ended up weakening the spiritual ties and broke apart many native families and their elders. In the end, it was ultimately brought back to modern society by providing learning programs to bring back traditional languages and rehabilitate Native American rituals to future …show more content…
"Racists and Colonizing Metaphors - Names and symbols that Native Americans struggle with every day." Indian Country Today, 24 July 2017.
This report discusses the ongoing racial and discriminatory acts that still plague Native Indians to this day. It goes on to give a few examples of these metaphors, symbols, and names that Native Americans struggle with every day. One example discussing the term "Redskin" and how it was used as a trademark for the Washington Redskins sports team. The author indicates that these uses of language and racism leads to say something about the American Identity, and how it will affect the emotional well-being of Native Americans.
The report does give some decent points and highly uses examples of what types of derogatory terms and symbols that are still used today. The text exhibits a bit of bias and gives a short evaluation of the author by the end of the report. The way this is relevant to the topic is that it gives a personal view of these accounts and gives credible examples of how these racial terms are still used within modern society. This exhibits primary and secondary sources as the author gives a review of the first-hand accounts and events while providing personal insight to how this influenced the author within their personal life and what impact this
The article discusses an incident that happened at the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center where students and their chaperones from American Horse School on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota were insulted and verbally harassed during a minor-league hockey game. Robert Cook, the author of the article, details his discontent of this account and goes on to describe how Native Americans are not alone with being the victims of hate and vindictiveness. Furthermore, that it has more of a deeper impact on children as it affects their self-esteem and overall outlook on diversity. Robert …show more content…
It discusses how the government has overtaken Native Americans from their homelands and placed to reservations. Laws and policies prohibited tribes from practicing religious and ceremonial rituals. It explains that these laws were not revoked until after the American Indian Religious Freedom Act which protected these natives to have the ability to express their religious views freely. Overall, this suffering ended up weakening the spiritual ties and broke apart many native families and their elders. In the end, it was ultimately brought back to modern society by providing learning programs to bring back traditional languages and rehabilitate Native American rituals to future …show more content…
"Racists and Colonizing Metaphors - Names and symbols that Native Americans struggle with every day." Indian Country Today, 24 July 2017.
This report discusses the ongoing racial and discriminatory acts that still plague Native Indians to this day. It goes on to give a few examples of these metaphors, symbols, and names that Native Americans struggle with every day. One example discussing the term "Redskin" and how it was used as a trademark for the Washington Redskins sports team. The author indicates that these uses of language and racism leads to say something about the American Identity, and how it will affect the emotional well-being of Native Americans.
The report does give some decent points and highly uses examples of what types of derogatory terms and symbols that are still used today. The text exhibits a bit of bias and gives a short evaluation of the author by the end of the report. The way this is relevant to the topic is that it gives a personal view of these accounts and gives credible examples of how these racial terms are still used within modern society. This exhibits primary and secondary sources as the author gives a review of the first-hand accounts and events while providing personal insight to how this influenced the author within their personal life and what impact this