Civil War Questions

1. Use evidence to describe the economic impact of casino ownership and gambling on Native American tribes.

The Casino ownership only benefits certain tribes. The tribe Mashantucket Pequots who owns Foxwoods largest casino has got rich off from it. But, only less then a quarter of Americans 557 Indian Tribes own casinos. Around 400,000 Indians have the highest rates of poverty and unemployment.

2. What is the most significant problem of trying to understand the condition of the modern Native American population?

Because there are over more then 2 million people who belong to over 500 different tribes. Each tribe has their own history and living circumstances which makes things hard to understand.

3. In what ways are Native Americans a unique minority group in the United States? Do these reasons seem justified today, or should Native Americans be considered as a "regular" minority group (like African Americans, Asian Americans, women, etc.)?

America has signed peace treaties which is the only ethnic group with a government agency. I think they should have their special minority group because they went through things we should make up for. If they have their own, African Americans should too because they have a story as well.

4. Please find 4 specific examples of the sorts of events generalized in this paragraph. For each specific example, include a hyperlink to a website explaining the specific event, and a summary of that event.

Dispatching children to boarding Schools:
Children as young as the age of five were forced to leave their parents and attend Christian schools away from home.
http://www.amnestyusa.org/amnestynow/soulwound.html

Making War on Native Americans:
Also known as "Indian Wars". We wanted to take the Native Americans land to have for ourselves for settlement.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_Wars

Increasing funding for the BIA:
We increased the funding to the Bureau of Indian Affairs
http://www.bia.gov/idc/groups/xocfo/documents/text/idc007883.doc

Sending Native Americans to Oklahoma:
We sent many of the Native Americans to Oklahoma to live which is now known as the Oklahoma tribes. (some of them)
http://www.talewins.com/oklahoma/native.htm

5. What is meant by the phrase 'diseases of the poor'? What is the relationship between economics and health implied by that phrase?

If you are poor, you are more likely to get disease because you can't buy the things you need to keep healthy. One third of the Native American population live in poverty and are four times as likely to die of alcoholism. Also they are three times as likely to die of tuberculosis and twice as likely to die of diabetes.

6. Is John McCain correct in his assessment of the treatment of Native Americans? Why?

Not exactly. Although it is obvious what we did was wrong, not everyone would see it this way. Still many people don't see what we did to African Americans was wrong either.

7. Please define each of the following terms in the context of Native American policy:

removal: They have been removed from us for awhile because they were so different.
allotment: They were given allotments and couldn't own their own land.
termination: We got rid of many Native Americans while invading their land.
relocation: Once we willed Native Americans, we made them relocate to different land.
assimilation: We culturally combined Native Americans with us and gave them their own minority.
self determination: They never gave up and many Native Americans still live in this area today and respect our rules.

8. Finally, give a paragraph summary on what self determination means, and why it either is, or is not, the appropriate policy for Native American people with respect to the Federal government.

I believe that the Native Americas really did have self determination. Self determination is the free choice of ones own acts without external compulsion. The Native Americans continue living in the United States and respect our rules after everything we did to them. I think this could make their policy self determination.