Seminar Prep
1. Seminar Questions
a. Do you think that we would have developed equal rights sooner if we had embraced the Natives rather than massacring them?
b. How would our history have changed if we had instead embraced Native Americans instead of wiping their population out? What types of conflict and resolution would arise from it?
c. Why does the settlers demand that the Indians leave the area so that white people can live there? What is keeping them from co-habitation?
2. 3 Lessons
a. Respect for other Cultures
i. “Beyond all that, how certain are we that what was destroyed was inferior? Who were these people who came out on the beach and swam to bring presents to Columbus and his crew, who watched Cortes and Pizarro ride through their countryside, who peered out of the forests at the first white settlers of Virginia and Massachusetts?” p. 18
b. Know where it’s RIGHT to stop, not where we CAN stop
i. “The Indians, he said, had not ‘subdued’ the land, and therefore had only a ‘natural’ right to it, but not a ‘civil right’. A ‘natural right’ did not have legal standing.” P.14
c. Greed can make people forget their fundamental beliefs
i. “On Haiti, they found that the sailors left behind at Fort Navidad had been killed in a battle with the Indians, after they had roamed the island in gangs looking for gold, taking women and children as slaves for sex and labor.”
Part 2: Modern Day
1. How the Media shapes Native American Identities
a. Stereotypes change with media representation
i. How the media has changed over time: first the spiritual peoples, then brave warrior, then crazy killer, then the uneducated savage (Reel Injun)
b. People make assumptions about Native American culture, especially if they haven’t been exposed to it outside of mainstream media.
c. It makes people want to hide their history, if it makes people want to change how they treat them. (Robert Bennet, First Person, First Peoples)
2. I think it reminded me to not take everything people tell me at face value. On more than one occasion recently, I’ve questioned the things I’ve been reading in the media about politics and American History in general. After further research, I found it to be different than it was presented to me.
3. Questions:
a. Do you think adding a subject like Native American cultures or something like that would help Americans be more accepting and less assuming about other people groups?
b.
a. Do you think that we would have developed equal rights sooner if we had embraced the Natives rather than massacring them?
b. How would our history have changed if we had instead embraced Native Americans instead of wiping their population out? What types of conflict and resolution would arise from it?
c. Why does the settlers demand that the Indians leave the area so that white people can live there? What is keeping them from co-habitation?
2. 3 Lessons
a. Respect for other Cultures
i. “Beyond all that, how certain are we that what was destroyed was inferior? Who were these people who came out on the beach and swam to bring presents to Columbus and his crew, who watched Cortes and Pizarro ride through their countryside, who peered out of the forests at the first white settlers of Virginia and Massachusetts?” p. 18
b. Know where it’s RIGHT to stop, not where we CAN stop
i. “The Indians, he said, had not ‘subdued’ the land, and therefore had only a ‘natural’ right to it, but not a ‘civil right’. A ‘natural right’ did not have legal standing.” P.14
c. Greed can make people forget their fundamental beliefs
i. “On Haiti, they found that the sailors left behind at Fort Navidad had been killed in a battle with the Indians, after they had roamed the island in gangs looking for gold, taking women and children as slaves for sex and labor.”
Part 2: Modern Day
1. How the Media shapes Native American Identities
a. Stereotypes change with media representation
i. How the media has changed over time: first the spiritual peoples, then brave warrior, then crazy killer, then the uneducated savage (Reel Injun)
b. People make assumptions about Native American culture, especially if they haven’t been exposed to it outside of mainstream media.
c. It makes people want to hide their history, if it makes people want to change how they treat them. (Robert Bennet, First Person, First Peoples)
2. I think it reminded me to not take everything people tell me at face value. On more than one occasion recently, I’ve questioned the things I’ve been reading in the media about politics and American History in general. After further research, I found it to be different than it was presented to me.
3. Questions:
a. Do you think adding a subject like Native American cultures or something like that would help Americans be more accepting and less assuming about other people groups?
b.