My first exposure to the true history of the Christopher Columbus and the Native Americans was in my AP History class in high school. After We were exposed to all of the information about the massacres and genocide, I compared what happened to the Native Americans to the Holocaust and still do. I think the topics brought up in this class are very heavy and a touchy subject, but it is something that needs to be brought up because just today one of our classmates hadn’t even heard this information until today. Many regions of the country hide our nations true history because they don’t want more people to know. This was one of the topics of conversation today in class. It is important to acknowledge, respect, and learn from our mistakes so they are not repeated in the future.<\/p>\n
Although the history is a very emotional topic, there have been other things that we have discussed even in just the three days of class that we’ve had. For example, the cultural traditions, languages, and religion. I particularly found it very interesting to read about in our book, Everything you wanted to know about Indians but were to afraid to ask<\/em> by Anton Treuer, that Native Americans use fasting to connect with the “Spirit”. I had learned about fasting through Muslim culture and religion but never knew other cultures and religions incorporated it as well. I think it takes much strength and mind power to fast all day and not give into temptation.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My first exposure to the true history of the Christopher Columbus and the Native Americans was in my AP History class in high school. After We were exposed to all of the information about the massacres and genocide, I compared what happened to the Native Americans to the Holocaust and still do. I think the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13808,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-week-1"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/amin210-ss18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/amin210-ss18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/amin210-ss18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/amin210-ss18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13808"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/amin210-ss18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/amin210-ss18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178,"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/amin210-ss18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions\/178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/amin210-ss18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/amin210-ss18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/amin210-ss18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}