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Rethinking Race 2010: Native American Content
First encounter: two cultures
Descent into warfare
Native Americans were enslaved,
Exiled….under the Indian Removal Act of 1830
Assimilated in Indian Boarding Schools
Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota
• 1.7 million acres
• 30,000
Lakota Sioux
• Established
1868
Pine Ridge Reservation…site of Wounded Knee Massacre 1890
Pine Ridge Reservation…site of Wounded Knee Standoff of 1973
Pine Ridge Reservation 2009
Pine Ridge – Shannon County, SD
• Unemployment around 80%.• Life expectancy: 48 for men, 52
for women;• Infant mortality five times the
national rate;• Highest alcoholism rate in the
nation
(Source: Eagles Nest Center, Westfield WI)
A story in statisticsCensus 2000Total US
populationAll Native Americans
Selected tribes
Female head of household
%
11.8 20.7 30.7 (Sioux)
% with bachelor degree or
higher (age 25+)
24.4 11.5 6.9 (Navajo)
Median earnings -
male
$37,057 $28,919 $24,688 (Pueblo)
Median earnings -
female
$27,197 $22,834 $21,077 (Navajo)
Poverty rate % 12.4 25.7 38.9 (Sioux)
The mascot controversy
Other Native American topics (on resource list):
• World War II Code Talkers
• Cross cultural nursing
• Native Americans in film
• Protection of graves
• Native American authors
• Native American law
• Casinos
• Native American myths
Ample opportunity to “weave” Native American content into your courses
Thank you!