https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie4m9LAVDGw&feature=emb_title

Select one question and respond with researched material using the AIE readings, the course content, and the film. Post your main statement by Friday night and reply to at least two classmates by Sunday night.

1. Who was John Collier, and what role did he play in creating a "New Deal" for Native people? Describe the Indian Reorganization Act or "Indian New Deal". In what ways was it a departure from previous policy? How did it change thinking about the place of Indians in American society? How did it influence subsequent policies towards Native Americans?

Further reading : Collier, John, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Johnson-O’Malley Act and Indian New Deal

2. The use of Native Americans in WWI and WWII as code talkers: Explain how the use of American Indian (Choctaw Osage, Comanche, and Navajo) languages in the wars allowed the USA to gain the advantage over the enemy. How did life change for American Indians after the wars because of this acknowledgment? How did the military, society, and the Indian communities/reservations respond to the use of the native languages in the wars? Did anything change?

Further reading : Navajo Code Talkers, World War I, Native American Participation in, Languages Used by Code Talkers During World War I and World War II and World War II, Native American Participation in

3. Termination Policy: What was it and how did it change the American Indian? Did it affect reservations? And did the politicians succeed in their goal of termination?

Further readings:

Termination Policy

Indian Relocation Program

Urban Indian Centers

Urban Indian Challenges

4. How did the civil rights movement influence and change Native Americans? What conditions gave rise to new Indian political activism, such as the American Indian Movement (AIM), in the 1960s and ’70s? How did Dennis Banks’ experience reflect an uneasy relationship between traditional native lives and modern American culture?

Further readings: Red Power Movement, American Indian Movement…more American Indian Movement, Wounded Knee Occupation (1973) and Pine Ridge Political Murders

5. From the 1970s to 2000, how did the religious, educational, cultural, and economic renaissance of many Native peoples take place? How has identity changed for Indian peoples? How did people with an interest in the New Age affect the acceptance of American Indian spirituality?

Further readings: New Age Appropriation

6. Modern Native issues: Tribal disenrollment and Reservation census tribalization. What issues affect tribes that depend on Federal funds? Why would tribal governments disenroll any person? How are the tribal economies able to survive in areas where poverty, diseases, and violence are rampant?

Further Readings: Federally Recognized Tribes, Tribal Economies, A History of, Non-Recognized Tribes and Poverty, Disease, and Violence in Indian Country

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