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John Collier with the Flathead Indian tribe signing the John Collier sits with Indians to try to save their deer from being slaughtered. first constitution providing Indian self-government. (Both pictures from Apimages).
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Write a journal/newspaper style article in which you take a neutral stance (as a reporter) and give the facts about the actual event. What led up to the event? What happened during the actual event? Did it have an “end” or is it unresolved? You are to write about this event __when it happened__, you are assuming the role of a reporter in 1850, 1920, etc., __not someone looking back from 2011__. You need to cite your sources, and they must include information only available during that time period. At least one source must be primary and/or an eyewitness account. **Important - This work will be submitted to TurnItIn.com. We will provide you information about using this helpful resource**! A Bittersweet Agreement for Indians
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For many years, America has treated Native Americans as a dying race. America’s blurred interpretation for Native America’s was ignorant savages, this is what for so long defined them. Numerous acts were passed that worked at converting tribal structure to the life-style of whites. The prominent identity Native American’s held was being worn away day by day.

Now, on June 18, 1934, the first act is made that works on preserving Native America cultures and giving back what was taken from them. With the Indian reorganization Act of 1934, Congress is giving Indians a credit system that enables them to borrow money so they can improve their land and even make their own livelihood. Much to the dismay of Christian missionaries, Native Americans were encouraged to practice their religion and make traditional arts and crafts. By giving Indians rights, that US citizens have, we are finally viewing them as people which is something the government has never done before.

Even though some Native Americans are agreeing to the act, others are questioning the content of it. The Navajo are one of the tribes who are rejecting the act. In return, the federal government let the Navajo’s come up with their own governmental plan, which included their independency form the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). However, the secretary of interior rejected their ideas (“Navajo Attitudes toward the Indian Reorganization Act “). To add more to the Navajo’s bitterness, the BIA have passed a Stock Reduction plan, which works at controlling livestock population. The Navajo’s were forced to watch as their stock was sold of slaughtered right in front of them. Fortunately after all the hits-and-misses the Navajo has had Congress composed the Navajo Tribal Council, which is made up of 74 elected officials. This leaves the Navajo with a bittersweet understanding of their place in society.

The Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 helps preserve the identity of Native Americans. However, some individuals were not sure if the act provides the best factors for improving the conditions Native Americans follow. Hopefully in the future we will all meet terms of how Native Americans are considered people or outcasts of the nation.

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"Navajo Attitudes toward the Indian Reorganization Act." // DISCovering Multicultural America //: // African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, Native Americans //. Detroit: Gale, 2003. // Gale Student Resources In Context //. Web. 22 Sep. 2011. Task 1: Mastery Rubric A quality news article will: •open with an attention-grabbing headline •identify the author's name and the date of the publication (in the past) •develop the 5 W's in three power paragraphs •paragraph 1: contain an interesting lead •paragraph 2: correctly cite a secondary source (an indirect quote) •paragraph 3: correctly cite a primary source (eyewitness account) •maintain appropriate journalistic voice •read like an article written in the same time period as the event occurred •be free of mechanics and Works Cited errors

TASK II What is the Argument? Are Native Americans worth the time the US government spends trying to integrate them into the mainstream of American culture or will they forever be segregated?

PROMPT 1: Why did the majority of Americans not recognize the rights of members of this group? Some Americans didn’t recognize the rights Native Americans have because of their unenthusiastic attempts towards choosing their government. There have been many acts made by the Americans for Indians to decide how they want to intergrate into American society and forget about tribal structure but Indians seemed like they couldn't make up their minds. Eventually Indian's consent on acts were no longer waited on because "they [Indians] cannot agree on what they want, and the allegation is used in congress or the Executive branch" said D'Arcy McNickle, a writer and Native American Activist. To Americans it seemed that their attempts of reaching out to the Indians were ignored. But the Indians were trying stated D'Arcy McNickle, a writer and Native American Activist, "Indians do know their needs, they always have, the problem was getting outsiders as administrators to listen when they fail to hear what they want to hear." Maybe the Indians truly were putting no effort in but maybe American's were just to caught up in thinking the Indians were indecisive either way both of the groups not cooperating with one another made Indians seem alien in the eyes of Americans.

//1999//: n. pag. Web. 5 Oct. 2011. || PROMPT 2: How did advocates for the minority group shed light on this injustice? Advocates of the Indians shed light on this injustice by protesting with. Native Americans often time worked along side white men, by working together they would become friends and when the white man would hear about the injustices their co-workers were going through they’d protest Indian’s rights with them. In 1922 the Bursum Bill of 1922 was introduced to Indians, it was designed to permit non-Indians to gain land within the Pueblo Indian land grant however, according to an excerpt from "DISCovering U.S History 1997", “the bill was defeated by protest of the Pueblo people and their supporters.” This shows how Native Americans and white men could work together for an outcome they agree on. Another time advocates showed their respect, according to music/lyric.nsf/Drums-lyrics-Johnny-Cash/394C97081238575248256DEA000A6DC7>. || U.S. History 1997", was after the Indian Reorganization Act was passed and many “were not sure that the Act provided the best means for improving conditions among Indians.” The empathy and respect that advocates showed towards Native Americans and the acts forced upon them gave hope to Native Americans and showed them that they were not protesting alone for their rights as people.
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 * < Cash, Johnny. //Sing365//. N.p., n.d. Web. 5 Oct. 2011.  GALEBT2104241513 ed. N.p., n.d. Web. 5 Oct. 2011. ||
 * "Indian Reorganization Act, June 18, 1934." //Gale Student Resources in Context//.

__Paragraph 1:__Analyze the impact of the literary or artistic work for the minority group and/or American society as a whole. From the Indian reservation to the governmental school Well they're goin' to educate me to the white men's Golden Rule And I'm learning very quickly for I've learned to be ashamed And I come when they call Billy though I've got an Indian name <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">And there are drums beyond the mountain Indian drums that you can't hear <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">There are drums beyond the mountain and they're getting mighty near <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">And when they think that t<span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">hey'd changed me cut my hair to meet their needs <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">Will they think I'm white or Indian quarter blood or just half breed <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">Let me tell you Mr teacher when you say you'll make me right <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">In five hundred years of fighting not one Indian turned white <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">And there are drums... <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">Well you thought that I knew nothing when you brought me here to school <span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">Just another empty Indian just America's first fool <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">But now I can tell you stories that are burnt and dried and old <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">But in the shadow of their telling walks the thunder proud and bold <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">And there are drums... <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">Long Pine and Sequoia Handsome Lake and Sitting Bull <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">There's Magnus Colorado with his sleeves so red and full <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">Crazy Horse the legend those who bit off Custer's soul <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">They are dead yet they are living with the great Geronimo <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">And there are drums... <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">Well you may teach me this land's hist'ry but we taught it to you first <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">We broke your hearts and bent your journeys broken treaties left us cursed <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">Even now you have to cheat us even though you this us tame <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">In our losing we found proudness in your winning you found shame <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;">And there are drums...
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<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> This song can be interpreted to dealing with aspects that had been taken away from Indians before the Indian Reorganization Act. Before the Act, Indians were forced to conform to the ways of the white man in the mens of education, culture, and identity. Indians were sent to school and taught a white mans curriculum the song demonstrates this when Johnny Cash, a country singer/songwriter, says "<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">they're goin' to educate me to the white man's Golden Rule." This quote demonstrates how the Indians were forced to learn a white man's education instead of their own. Another meaningful line in this song is when Johnny Cash, a country singer/songwriter, says " they'd changed me cut my hair to meet their needs." This quotes shows that the white man not only changed their learning materials but also changed their outer appearance something so controversial because the identity of the Native American was so blurred until the Indian Reorganization Act came into action. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> music/lyric.nsf/Drums-lyrics-Johnny-Cash/394C97081238575248256DEA000A6DC7>. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Cash, Johnny. //Sing365//. N.p., n.d. Web. 5 Oct. 2011. <http://www.sing365.com/

<span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;">__Paragraph 2:__ CLOSING-- How did the event impact the debate on the argument? <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The event impacted the debate on the argument because it showed Indians taking part in deciding their government but also letting them keep their identities. The Act allowed Indians to freely incorporate their tribal government in democratic fashion but also keep their identity because their arts and culture were encouraged. Some tribes like the Navajo rejected the act but according to, "DISCovering multicultural America 2003," " the Department of Interior created a Navajo business council, composed of 74 Navajo elected members." This quote shows how americans and Indians were now fluidly working together. John Collier, commissioner of Indian Affairs, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">even stated that "nine out of ten Indians remain on or near land." To Indians, land is a devotion not an ownership and after the Act their prominent identity was restored giving them better energy and confidence so they could work together with white man to form their government.

"Navajo Attitudes toward the Indian Reorganization Act." // DISCovering Multicultural America //: // African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, Native Americans //. Detroit: Gale, 2003. // Gale Student Resources In Context //. Web. 22 Sep. 2011.

//Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1938//, Washington, 1938, pp. 209–211.

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 10pt;">An outstanding time line entry includes the following: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 10pt;">• Opens by identifying you, the author, and your event with a banner headline (see an example of a banner on the top of this page). <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 10pt;">• <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Under the banner, in the table place two graphics or photos that illustrates an important aspect of the event. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">• Thoughtful responses to each prompt are supported by credible sources representing diverse perspectives on the event. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">• Each response should be posted in order (follow template instructions), contain few mechanic errors and follow the power paragraph format. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;"> • The credibility of each cited source is established and internal citations accurately match the Works Cited. • TASK I and TASK II each introduce and cite two new sources; TASK III cites one new source.• The Works Cited lists 5 credible sources from the LC databases.
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