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The history of Native Americans deserves just as much credit as African Americans or Women's history. This story of Indian relocation is just one of the many very sad experiences of what United States policy has put them through. The sadist part of it all is that they were here first! This particular story shows that even in the 1950s the US was still relocating 60,000 Indians thinking we had the right to "mainstream " them into Urban areas. After reading this depressing story it make me feel extremely grateful that Native Americans are no longer treated in this way and made me realize if anyone in the USA should be the most proud to be American, it should be all the Native Americans left today that still retain their cultures. -- David Fitch | The history of Native Americans deserves just as much credit as African Americans or Women's history. This story of Indian relocation is just one of the many very sad experiences of what United States policy has put them through. The sadist part of it all is that they were here first! This particular story shows that even in the 1950s the US was still relocating 60,000 Indians thinking we had the right to "mainstream " them into Urban areas. After reading this depressing story it make me feel extremely grateful that Native Americans are no longer treated in this way and made me realize if anyone in the USA should be the most proud to be American, it should be all the Native Americans left today that still retain their cultures. -- David Fitch | ||
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| + | Just as with the Japanese internment camps during World War II, I feel like the US government was good at alienating various racial/ethnic groups in America. The Indians had already been forcibly removed once (The Trail of Tears) but to do it again is just horrible. The fact that the government changed it mind all of a sudden was both disturbing to the American Indian way of life, but also scarred them emotionally and in many other ways, which is similar to what abratchi said above. What is most awful is how the Mankiller family had so much trouble adapting. How could the government just take the Indians from their old way of life and drop them into bustling urban/industrial cities, where they have no idea what to do, how to act, and are seen as aliens to the country, even though they were Americans. It was sad to read about how the girls were made fun of at school, and as a result they "sat up late every night reading aloud to each other to get rid of our accents." (P. 214). These girls were so ashamed of their ancestry, which was even sadder. Why was it so necessary to assimilate different cultures into American culture? Why couldn't white Americans just simply coexist with minority groups and accept one another for their differences instead of displacing them physically as well as emotionally? Wilma Mankiller used the word "alienation" which I think is a perfect word to describe this situation. These Indians were alienated from their homes, culture and just life in general and the worst part of all of it was that this relocation didn't help the government in any way. So in the end, both the government and the Indians lost. -- Alex M. | ||
==A Letter to the Editor of The Ladder from an African American Lesbian, 1957== | ==A Letter to the Editor of The Ladder from an African American Lesbian, 1957== | ||
