What does it take for a group to become American Assimilation into main culture Learning the language Patriotism What benefits come with a top position in the racial hierarchy White Privilege more job opportunities education medical Othering any action by an individual or group that becomes mentally classified in somebody s mind as not one of us The evolution of attitudes toward interracial relationships almost one third of the states had laws banning marriage between people of different races These laws were struck down in the landmark Supreme Court case in 1967 Loving v Virginia Assimilation the process of a people or groups language or culture of differing ethnic heritage are absorbed into the dominant culture of a society Binary Opposition pair of related terms that have opposite meaning Ethnicity based on National origin or culture culture language religion music Symbolic Ethnicity third generation interest Guess who s coming to dinner Movie the media portrayed about a black man who was a doctor that got married to white women Loving V Virginia 1967 It s okay for black women and white men supreme Court overturns it mixed couple was arrested lower courts state upheld anti miscegenation laws supreme court repeals decisions and laws go away Privilege Male white upper class beauty education religion age sexuality straight Race based on physical characteristics A racial group is a social group that persons inside or outside the group have decided is important to single out as inferior or superior typically on the basis of real or alleged physical characteristics subjectively selected How did Native Americans live before contact with Europeans Made of culture areas tipi nomads Mud house protection desert Chickee open ventilation protect from gators because up high Wigwams insulation in forest up north The impact of European Disease on the Natives Obliterated them It was hard for the natives to survive because no resources to help them What did Americans mean by civilization Must farm must be Christian dress normal Andrew Jackson s connection to Indian removal Took a blind eye approach to the Indians plight i e Worchester V Georgia ignored completely would say Native Americans are wondering savages The differences of Opinion among Native and White Americans regarding Indian Removal Native Americans Treaty Party in favor or treaties with America Why Because last resort safest option must move forward Old party Against treaties Why Because they d lose home and culture die on trail of tears Whites Hate people who have direct contact Tolerate missionaries people who have never experienced tribes Culture Areas a contiguous geographic area comprising a number of societies that possess the same or similar traits or that share a dominant cultural orientation Cycle of displacement expanding population east brief period of coexistence settlers don t have peace with Indians friction lead to war Phase 1 Coexistence Phase 2 pop growth Phase 3 conflict war Phase 4 displacement Manifest Destiny the idea that we are the best god given mission god has told us to do it key components better life expansion Pocahontas She is like crowned princess her dad is in charge of a large group kidnapped and help for a hostage so they ll bring the war to an end changed her name Rebecca Ralph John Smith Soldier of fortune that fought Irish war likes adventure becomes the leader of Jamestown tells rich people if they don t work they don t eat holds someone hostage for ransom Seminole wars 3 conflicts between the US and the Seminole Indians of Florida Trail of Tears Seminole lands Chickasaw lands Cherokee lands creek lands Choctaw lands journey the Cherokee Indians took when the Indian removal act was passed This trail was named after brutal conditions the Indians went through on this journey Worcester vs Georgia Cherokees want to settle it in Supreme Court Chief John Ross member of Cherokee party Elias Boudinot wealthy editor signs member of Cherokee party What strategies did Native Americans use to respond to the continued encroachment by the US into native territory Battles massacres Wars Lakota Wars new religious practices Ghost Dance participation in Wild West shows What were the different ways US citizens responded to the situation of natives in the West Created western s which the most popular genre was in 1990 How was the survival of the buffalo important to the survival of the Plains and Prairie tribes Use EVERYTHING from the buffalo on inside outside for daily life Ex hoof boiled to make glue 300 by 1893 Indians kill buffalo What was the impact of the Indian Schools Goal to Christianize and civilize change when their young make their names Joseph or Mary cut their hair and change names so their more civilized when older missionary activities children taken from parents and to Pennsylvania when they did go home culture was lost fed fairly take the Indian out of them Black Elk traditional healer famous holy man of the Sioux Buffalo Bill s Wild West Show stage battles with Indians and cowboys with cattle many animals arranged popular traveling show cowboys and soldiers were white people acting and Indians were actual Indians acting Buffalo Culture tribes that used Buffalo for the chief source for items which Indians made from their flesh hide and bones such as food cups decorations crafting tools and knives George Custer General in the Indians war given task to gather up Indians he was in civil war he was in cavalry wore flamboyant clothes comes to village told to shoot the livestock people started to run away so he took it as people resisting and shot them Officials create trap to catch George but they lost him Ended as a military victory John Smith Soldier of fortune that fought Irish War becomes the leader of Jamestown Dawes Severalty Act cut reservations into 30 50 parts we are going to civilize those Indians increasing your buy into American Citizenship makes it likely the individual Indians will sell their land Pretty much taking away their land and eliminating Indian lands Charles Eastman Native American writer and doctor Geronimo captured but wasn t allowed to go home forced to be a farmer people used to call his name jumping out of planes controlled Indian he regretted his choice people would take pictures of him under house arrest but was asked to be honor of guest and got money for it Ghost Dance ends up tragic to most get rid of everything white people do alcohol we ll raise the dead up get the
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