Lawless lands

watching the video "lawless lands" allowed me to receive some information that i would have got if it was not for this class, Because all i have been hearing were lies. I found it very depressing that the system does very little to nothing for Indian reservations. When i was little i would got back to my mom's home town, Holbrook in northern Arizona. which is near a Navajo reservation and i remember going to meetings with my grandmother, and hearing them talk about not getting checks and other financial help that was promised the months prior. So i can relate to the racism and discrimination amongst the Native Americans. in the video the FBI are in the wrong because money was taken from Indian reservations because of the New York lost of the world trade center. At the end of the day the bad people are still doing bad and the good are getting screwed over, because of the lack of effort from the social worker's to do anything about it.

Indian sports logos

In the world today we think its OK to have someones culture mocked and made into a symbol. In class we watched a film about a lady that worked at that university of Illinois. She went to a basketball game with her kids and saw the pregame dance. The dance had been a tradition for many years. The person that played the Native American hero was a white graceful dancer. She started to feel uncomfortable, so she decided to protest against the mascots. Here are some other Mascots of Indians around the country!

Emma & Sadie

Every Day is a good day(Chapter 5)

Traditional indigenous women play a major role in the community as well as their families. When the topic of what one may call womanhood I think a of an involved individual who wants to fight for her rights but doesn’t want to be put in the same class as feminists even though they are very passionate about gender issues. Instead, want to be regular strong women working for civil rights for their family and community.

Don’t Let the Sun (Chapter 5&6)

In this chapter I want to put to put a spot light Eva and her family. Eva was a young bright girl who had couple brothers and a sister. Eva’s sister who later dies went to St. John’s Indian School with her other siblings. It was a coed school But, The boys and girls were always separated from each other and almost never interacted with eachother. English was the dominate language at the school. If you didn’t know it you were taught the language as well as Music at school. Eva began to feel sick and later got chicken pox and was in the hospital for some time. Eva’s mom remarried to a man named Charley Marley. Eva’s mother who became blind from trachoma she had to take time off from school to help her mother out. eventually she got better and Eva went back to school. Charley Marley and her mother moved to Chedisake. He constructed a home where that would live happily ever after.

Women and Change (Chapter 8)

Colonia communities depend of the hands of women. This is a place where Mexicans get their culture from. The highest number of immigrants in the U.S. was in the 1980’s. There were people who live in the Colonia’s who were interviewed about gender roles and what they expect from men and women. It was said that the man’s role was the most authority; kids obey him more similar to the American culture. They also give security to their families, and the provider. The mothers roles were intelligence and wisdom, educator, iron clothes, bathe the kids, take them to school, and feed them food. These are traditional roles, but the women have the active in leadership roles. Making women a major part of the community.

Women and Change (Chapter 7)

When we think about Mexico and the situation the people who live there are in. You think about the Working mothers from Mexico and their everyday struggle. All the jobs that once were moved to Mexico for lower wages are now moving elsewhere. For the people who still have jobs a lot of their low wage pay is used to feed their children and pay rent. Their everyday struggles are trying to help their children and family while working full-time job. Childcare comes in as a big conflict. The little money they get just isn’t enough.

Stong Women Stories in chapter 17

Carl Fernandez in this chapter talks about building gender equity in Aboriginal communities. Aboriginal women are leaders who protect the future of the community by transmitting language and culture to their seed. On the other side it was said that Young men can make a difference by re-establishing gender equity through the promotion of more balanced relations between men and women in communities. For example, do equal amount of work around the house and so on. Fernandez goes on to describe how the aboriginal community is imbalanced and full of uncertainty. Many women believe the men need to step back and allow the women to step forward so that they can stand together as equals because aboriginal people need their traditions to find meaning in life and guidance for the survival for their people.

Strong Women Stories chapter 14

This chapter focused on a woman that had many struggles. Rebecca Martell was a foster parent raising a foster boy. His mother was a Native woman who had a alcoholism problem who was trying to raise three other of his younger siblings. Him being the oldest it forced him to try and provide for his two young sisters. His foster mother Rebecca learned about her foster sons Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. A year went by before her foster son would to talk to her about his situation. Rebecca became an important factor in her community. She produced of addiction awareness workshops. Also a community plan of action for children who might be identified with special needs. By doing her part and making her community more aware of the different issues that we as people have to go through every day she lived a happier life.

Strong Women Stories

Chapter 13

This chapter was about Creating a Community Based School. The native children that attended the town school were taken out by their parents because of the racism and hard time the other students were putting them though at the school. The parents soon started their own school on the reservation. The parents had a lot of say in their children’s education. There was a graduate student by the name of Jean Knockwood, As she was in the process of receiving her master’s degree the parents wanted her to home school their children. She agreed and the school started with 50 kids. They were taught Mi’kmaq culture. Later there were problems with the teacher and the parents which affected the community.

DIss. Women (Chapter 5)

This Article was about the Zapatista indigenous women and how they had to move into new roles. The actions and what was asked of the women were not the same as others, Women Across the different indigenous communities. This reminds me of a movie that we watched in class and how the women did all the work and the men sat around all day doing nothing. In this case the women that lived away in camps were treated or acted different from the women that lived close. Equally important, Women were the ones who worked in the fields, and harvested coffee. It was said that in different times the women did different things. It seemed like as the years went on women picked up more important roles and skills to better the saturation that their family was in at the time. you will never see the women and men together and since there are no phones the men would walk for miles and miles to see their lover and if the women is not there, they would just walk all the way home like in was nothing. I found that odd.

mexico's factoeris

During the last class we had a chance to look at the way of life the Mexican worker live and how they are treated by the companies from the U.S.Which moved there for lower wages. The fact that the workers can stand there and do the motions they do while working in the factory is mind blowing. Knowing that the companies would leave with out paying out the workers, it makes our country look like snakes and unreliable. At the end the women worker formed a union which took the companies to court where at the end the won and got their money. Even though they have to live with the waste of the factories they rejoice.

chipas coffee film

Looking back at the time when we watched this movie in class and and i saw how much work they put in everyday to make the organic coffee beans. Its a rare process. When i saw the little boy who can barely talk able to put his sare of work in to earn his family some money. It was said that all the coffee beans that were Left they ate and made tea for food. this film showed me how hard work different cultures put in to get so little while we are so lazy but get so much.

Gender in Inuit Society

In Alaska, life for the men and women were the same as almost every culture in the U.S. Men were the leaders and the labor was not equal. The men picked up food and hunted, and did everything needed for a successful day of hunting. On the other hand, the house hold work and the routines that kept everything in tacked were the basis for the women. Women didn’t have say on when they got married or to whom. The Tlingit Women were more involved in their families. The men and women did pretty much of the same things but trade. They both didn’t really have a say because in their culture they really respected their elders and basicly what ever they said went.

conquest

This hand out was raw and I couldn’t find anything that I agreed with. In Chapter one, they talk about violence in a sexual manner. Rape and other Sexual violence are tools of patriarchy. Race, racism, as well as incrimination played a major role in this reading to work the society. This puts a spot light on the African American women and other woman of color when it comes to their struggle of sexual abuse in their history.

Diss. women chapter 3

A woman’s role in the 21st century for the Chiapas varied. Women formed demonstrations, occupied land and formed marches of mainly indigenous women to get changes in their political identities. The women who took part in the movements were able to reach many people and make their network larger. Reading this chapter I feel that the Chiapas went through so much and had so many struggles, that something has to happen to make things better.

many tender ties intro & chapter 1

Intro:
this book examines the role played by the Indians, mixed-blood and white women in the development of fur trades society in what is today Western Canada. for more then 200 years beginning with the founding of the Hudson bay company in 1670 the fur trade dominated the western development. It goes on to talk about how there is three groups of women and regards to fur trading women occupied a degrading position and Indian women had everything to gain be becoming the wife of the soupier trader. they looked at the role played by women as actor in the fur trade stage is essential. women were not treated much different back then then how they were treated before they formed equal rights movements.


chapter 1, enter the white man

There was never was a European to come onto the Western Canada ground before the Hudson bay company was formed. The Company ties played a important role in the traders experiences. the opinion varied of the Indian women. Some said that they were not seductive but they were sweet and the sweetness of there voice made them attractive. Which started the marriages of the Indian women and the European fur traders. on the other hand Sex was a big deal between the two leading up to the spread of VD in the Indian country. the women then were seemed to be treated as sex objects as time went on as the two cultures worked together in the fur trading business.

what native women werent

Native Men and women where talked about disrespectfully in this reading. The English stated that hunting and fishing was a main part of the native’s lives even though like the thanks giving story the native Americans provided the English people with food kindness. Native Women didn’t have a lazy bone in their body it was always said that work was important to them. This makes me think of a cartoon that was very offensive because the English in this cartoon took advantage of the Native Americans kindness and betrayed them at the end forcing them to become like workers for the English men.

chapter 6 and 4 unsetting settler

Fur trading played a large part of Canada’s eco. The people that made the most impact were native America women. The work that was between the Europeans and Native people helped the two to communicate. There was a big down fall in the industry. All the work between the Europeans took place in Canada. Women put together unions and organizations to push forward. I feel that by women forming organizations it gave them some power.

To colonization Mexico and understand the three factors in the African population u need miscegenation. The spread of western diseases and forced labor was the cause of the Indian male decrease and the increase population of black males and females. Spanish women went through a lot at this time.

Native women in the labor

After doing the reading i found myself not agreeing with what was said about the Native women. they're stereotypes out there about the norms of the women. such as they can not defend for their selves or she is a timid individual that answers to her husband. In other words she is frail. women were not suppose to do any kind of work and if you did you were looked down at upon. i have many questions about this reading it was very interesting.