Group #1: The textbook’s coverage of Native/indigenous folks by Judi Freeman https://padlet.com/freemanjud/bdtinoumnc8ibi29 en-us 2021-12-21 22:57:38 UTC 2021-12-23 18:54:42 UTC hello@padlet.com The textbook generally portrays indiginous poeple as mainly passive in the process of white colonization in America. It also takes blame away from the government- for example, it says that the government couldn't have done anything to stop westward expansion by white people, even though the government was often actively involved with promoting this expansion. erosikessel https://padlet.com/freemanjud/bdtinoumnc8ibi29/wish/1962144189 2021-12-23 14:25:30 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/bdtinoumnc8ibi29/wish/1962144189 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/bdtinoumnc8ibi29/wish/1962144289 I wish it talked about the modern attempts to spread awareness about the history of Native Americans, there's no talk about Native Americans after the 60s]]> 2021-12-23 14:25:35 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/bdtinoumnc8ibi29/wish/1962144289 avanhise https://padlet.com/freemanjud/bdtinoumnc8ibi29/wish/1962145241 I wish it talked about the modern attempts to spread awareness about the history of Native Americans, there's no talk about Native Americans after the 60s

]]> 2021-12-23 14:26:14 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/bdtinoumnc8ibi29/wish/1962145241 avanhise https://padlet.com/freemanjud/bdtinoumnc8ibi29/wish/1962165003 The textbook definitely attempts an unbiased viewpoint, but it's clear that the brutality of expansion is muddled in the text. The attempt to condemn both sides causes the textbook to not go in depth on the atrocities that were often committed, especially the lack of mention of the genocide in California.]]> 2021-12-23 14:39:33 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/bdtinoumnc8ibi29/wish/1962165003 avanhise https://padlet.com/freemanjud/bdtinoumnc8ibi29/wish/1962167995 The genocide in California, the poverty that Native Americans were plunged into due to the reservation system, anything about Native Americans after the 60s]]> 2021-12-23 14:41:38 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/bdtinoumnc8ibi29/wish/1962167995 Cat Lee https://padlet.com/freemanjud/bdtinoumnc8ibi29/wish/1962198465 When talking about Jefferson's policy to take Native Americans out of their homes, it says  "the tribes would face ever-growing pressure to move out  of the way of the rapidly growing white settlements"(177) 
Not being able to find parking in a neighborhood, is an "ever-growing pressure" to move, but acts of violence, discrimination, taking away ones culture and identity is forcing someone to move out not an "ever growing pressure" that's forcing people out.]]> 2021-12-23 15:03:45 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/bdtinoumnc8ibi29/wish/1962198465 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/bdtinoumnc8ibi29/wish/1962208805 "... a great majority of Native Americans remained outside the reach of white educational reforms."(282) 
Whats a boarding school, or the foster system never hear of that??
- Cat]]> 2021-12-23 15:11:35 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/bdtinoumnc8ibi29/wish/1962208805 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/bdtinoumnc8ibi29/wish/1962221889 When talking abt reservations and what they're used for, it compares them to prisons, and asylums (in a good way) and regards the idea of reduction and reforming the indigenous culture as an "optimistic goal" (283)
-Cat ]]> 2021-12-23 15:21:38 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/bdtinoumnc8ibi29/wish/1962221889 kmurray135 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/bdtinoumnc8ibi29/wish/1962266272 The textbook generally dismisses the reality of what happened during the colonization of the areas. The textbook just describes it as the Native Americans were pressured out of the way of colonizers. The colonizers attacked and murdered anyone who was in their way, this was not murder, this was genocide. ]]> 2021-12-23 15:57:55 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/bdtinoumnc8ibi29/wish/1962266272 kmurray135 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/bdtinoumnc8ibi29/wish/1962268828 I wish it addressed some more recent acts about this subject. Like how different tribes have been receiving plots of land to "repay" them for the actions of the colonizers. I think they could have addressed the liability of the colonizers and talked about more solutions that would resonate more with the natives. ]]> 2021-12-23 16:00:25 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/bdtinoumnc8ibi29/wish/1962268828 erosikessel https://padlet.com/freemanjud/bdtinoumnc8ibi29/wish/1962320189 There's a paragraph on page 37 that basically says that white people tried to covert Indigenous people to Christianity and it wasn't very successful. This page also says that relationships between white settlers and Indigenous people were pretty peaceful, which ignores so much.]]> 2021-12-23 17:01:50 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/bdtinoumnc8ibi29/wish/1962320189 The textbook made a point about trying to remain unbiased, but still presented information through the eyes of the white Americans. During Thomas Jefferson's presidency, he proposed a solution to the so-called "Indian Problem" in the West but the texbook portrayed the solution in kind of a benign sort of wording, saying how they could become assimilated into white culture or migrate west. The way the two options were presented seemed like it wasn't violent or forceful and only later it adressed the true nature of the act in a single sentence. Elizabeth Kennedy https://padlet.com/freemanjud/bdtinoumnc8ibi29/wish/1962385269 2021-12-23 18:43:21 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/bdtinoumnc8ibi29/wish/1962385269 I wish the textbook took Indigenous voices into account a lot more. The fact that the textbook is really only focusing on the views and voices of Europeans, I think its vital to incorporate their own perspectives into history instead of simply saying something like "oh the Native Americans attacked white settlers so they had to be civilized". I also think that more modernized Native history should be added to the textbook because the fact that there isn't any information on it in modern-day is really harmful for younger students who might just think that all Indigenous people died out after the settlers came. Elizabeth Kennedy https://padlet.com/freemanjud/bdtinoumnc8ibi29/wish/1962389979 2021-12-23 18:52:31 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/bdtinoumnc8ibi29/wish/1962389979 More modern history that is relevant today so that people will understand that Indigenous people are still living in this country today. Elizabeth Kennedy https://padlet.com/freemanjud/bdtinoumnc8ibi29/wish/1962390885 2021-12-23 18:54:08 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/bdtinoumnc8ibi29/wish/1962390885