11/30/2018 0 Comments Native American StrugglesDoes Native American history and culture teach us lessons that can help reduce the enormous potential for ethnic and religious conflict in today’s world?
Native Americans have a massive history and culture, but for a long time it has been overlooked or erased by western colonialism. Today, Native Americans live in poverty on reservations in remote parts of the country. Native American history is rarely taught in schools, and their languages are almost lost. Most Native Americans suffer from alcoholism and are unemployed. The oppression of Native Americans was perpetuated by President Andrew Jackson, with his Indian Removal Act which would lead to the death of over 4,000 natives. Native Americans would not gain their citizenship until 1924, and would still be forced to live on indian reservations. This type of consistent repression of human rights is a play right out of the imperialist's handbook: invade, oppress, and forget. But this type of conflict is different from the more direct examples. There was never a massacre or a genocide, but rather a denial of rights over hundreds of years. This teaches us that sometimes the worst outcome of colonialism isn't always death, but rather the destruction of a culture and people with a millennium of history.
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