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.