2019 Summer SUNY First Peoples of North America

The online resource that I reviewed for our blog assignment was United South and Eastern Tribes, Inc. This website is about the United South and Eastern Tribes which is a non-profit organization. This organization was set up ion 1969 to represent all of the federally recognized tribes on the Eastern side of the United States. United South and Eastern Tribes (USET) provide a way for tribes to exchange ideas and information between each other and governmental agencies. The basis of starting this organization was to work in unity with each tribe east of the Mississippi to provide a strong and united voice for them. It is also to assist in helping the Tribal Nations deal with public policy issues and to improve the Tribal governments. It’s primary goal is to promote and protect the sovereignty rights of the Tribal Nations and ensuring that the United States Government upholds their responsibility to the American Indian population.   One major movement by USET is creating a Youth Le...

            Instead of blogging about a mod 3 resource this week, I decided to blog about an amazing documentary I watched earlier in the week. Currently found on Netflix is Nova season 45 episode 4, “First Face of America.” Nova followed the discovery and eventual removal of 13,000-year-old human remains.             The team that discovered the remains learned of an underwater cave in Mexico that had multiple large animal skeletons. While deep in the cave they located a deep pit that was loaded with large animal remains. They found more then thirty animals which are now extinct in the bottom of the pit. Prior to the last Ice Age, this cave would have been dry.             While studying the animal remains the team discovered a nearly intact human skeleton. They removed a small sample from the remains for testing an...

The source I reviewed for Module 3 is from an article on “History Today,” which title is “Native Americans and the Federal Government.” It was written by Andrew Boxer. In this article, he “traces the origins of a historical issue still as controversial and relevant today as in past centuries” (Boxer, 2009).              At the beginning of this article, it talked about the current situation of the Native Americans. And the author tried to convey the perspective controversy and relevance between the Native American and the federal government today. We all have learned that it the last centuries, the U.S. government had tried all means to expel the Indians out of their homeland and settle down mostly in the reservations. They enforced the Indian children to give up their language and culture and to be like the white man. Boxer talked about the suffering of the Native Americans, too. But he also mentioned that the federal In...

I reviewed the resource that expanded on the Tree of Peace and the significance of the natural world in Haudenosaunee worldview. However, that was simply the written version of the video we were asked to watch in Module 1 of Oren Lyons being interviewed by Bill Moyers. So I also reviewed the resource of Vine Deloria who wrote the forward to our Native American Testimony text for this class. The video of Vine Deloria, Jr. was one of my favorite videos to watch, right along with the video of Oren Lyons. I kept seeing the name “Vine Deloria, Jr.” in readings, and did some research to figure out that he was a writer and a Standing Rock Sioux. But it is one thing to read about someone and another to actually watch a video of that person. In the video, Deloria mentions points out that white collective consciousness forgets easily and will only uplift one person from each minority group ( A Conversation With Vine Deloria, Jr. , 00:09:50 - 00:11:10). He says that there is a cycle—around every ...

The source that I reviewed was within the U.S. General Services Administration and is in regards to tribal consultation. It was created by former president George W. Bush by issuing “Executive Memorandum Government to Government Relationship with Tribal Governments recommitting the federal government to work with federally recognized Native American tribal governments on a government to government basis and strongly supporting and respecting tribal sovereignty and self-determination”. The perspective that it is meant to convey is to inform its readers that the federal government respects tribal sovereignty and an executive memorandum and executive orders exist to support this. I believe this web resource was selected and put into this course to inform its participants that an actual memorandum was created by the federal government respecting the sovereignty of federally recognized tribes. I also believe this resource was selected to inform its readers that the U.S. has a unique l...

Simply a bookmark to demarcate where modules begin & end. Nn Rocky Steps, Philly, June 2019