Savage

Today we looked at a textbook written in 1887 in America. the text book frequently describes the native Indian population as "savages." Google's definition of savage is "a member of a people regarded as primitive or uncivilized." The book describes them as oppressive and lazy, pointing out that the women did all the work in the village. It also describes their eyes as "snaky." It describes their culture as barbaric by discussing the attitude and reverence of warriors in Indian tribes. It describes them as illiterate by saying that they had no books. Later chapters in the book describe Indian attacks on colonies as very brief encounters with "the savages." The language and tone used by the author of the book gives the reader a dismissive attitude toward Indian people and culture.

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Newspaper Journal Entry

     So it turns out, the other day, Congress failed to pass a bill that would allow Indian children to be put under educational contracts as apposed to being enrolled in a government funded public school. Those in favor of the bill made convincing arguments, pointing out that the current government funded public schools are not really providing an education, that the government does not have the funds nor the interest to make these schools more effective, and that the contracts would be almost entirely beneficial to those Indian children who want and need a proper education in both academics and Christianity. I do then wonder what the argument from the opposition was. My newspaper only provided sources form people in favor of the bill, congressmen from the states where the paper was published, and it therefore neglected to provide any information on the thoughts from those apposed to the bill.

The Intermountain Catholic

THINK

"Our use of social media for news is selective and intentional so that we may tend to remain interested only in thing we are already interested in. On the other hand professional news outlets like newspapers expose readers to information on a broad range of topics. This helps me to see what other people are interested in or think is important."

Newspaper

1. Printed media distributed weekly or daily in folded paper. (businessdictionary.com)
2. Relation aller Furnenumen und gedenckwurdigue histoien was printed in 1605
3. Americas first newspaper was the Boston News-Letter" printed 4-24-1704
4. Newspapers today discuss political points and sports. (nytimes.com)
5. A newspaper that is used by the government to distribute public notices. The first newspaper of record was New York Times. The Washington Post is considered a newspaper of record today.
6. Modern day social media being used a source of news has created a much more obvious bias among the different sources of information. In the newspapers that they read and printed in 1862 had a much more strait fact approach to news, and what little opinion that was there was hidden and non obvious. Modern day, the social media can be written by anyone, and therefore are more opinionated. In a system where news is coming out 24 hours a day, the media must be more opinionated in order to attract viewers and fill time. In the olden days newspapers only came out once or twice a day in, so the information was less opinionated.
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Q1 Reflections

Q1 Reflections

            This quarter I learned briefly about the US pre-Civil War, the views of slavery and racism in both the North and the South during and leading to the Civil War, the Reconstruction, Black Codes, Jim Crow, modern impact in the South of the loss of the Civil War, and Western expansion after the Civil War. I have learned to view the topics we study with empathy, that is, trying to understand a decision of event by thinking about it through the mind of someone present at that time in history. This has been the most significant part of the curriculum this year. I have found that viewing history not as a list of facts and dates, but as the lives of real people who had to make decisions that shaped the world gives a more important reason and value to history class. It makes history more relevant and personal.

           

            Moving forward I need to work on being a better reader and making sure to fully understand the material rather than just reading it once and then hoping I get it. I also need to be more focused in class in order to get more out of the time I have in class and therefore have less to do outside of class. I look forward to studying WWII and seeing how the US specifically influenced the conflict. The Cold War will also be interesting because it is a part of history I know very little about. 

Native American Research Paragraph

Native American Research Paragraph

            Since the late 1800’s the Anglo Americans have been trying to dominate Native Americans via cultural assimilation. Starting in 1860, Anglo Americans have started to create boarding schools to send Native American children. At these schools, the children were taught math, science, and history, but most controversially English and Christianity. This was widely protested by the parents of the Native American children argued that these schools deprived their children of their own spiritual practices. This caused many clashes whit authorities. There were instances of villages that refused in bulk to resist sending their kids to school, resulting in police forcibly take the children from their homes and bring them to the schools. There is no doubt that these schools were an attempt to break the fundamental culture of the Native American culture by attempting to remove the influence of the parents.

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