{"id":217,"date":"2018-06-15T17:08:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T17:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/amin210-ss18\/?p=217"},"modified":"2018-06-15T20:53:52","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T20:53:52","slug":"brandon-engelstad-week-1-post-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/amin210-ss18\/2018\/06\/15\/brandon-engelstad-week-1-post-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Engelstad: Week 1 Post 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my first week of American Indian Studies 210, I have learned more about Indian Americans than I have learned for my whole life. While reading through <em>Everything You Wanted to Know about Indians But Were Afraid to Ask,\u00a0<\/em>by Anton Treuer, I was able to hear an Indians side of our history. I was told before that we should not praise Christopher Columbus as much as we do, but I was never really informed of exactly why. In the reading, I was able to finally see the reason. The way the Spaniards treated the natives was horrible. The killing, the raping, and everything else they did to them was inexcusable. I know they were from a different period in time, but even for that time, nobody should have been treated like that. I don&#8217;t see how we could let our country be so blind for centuries. We can&#8217;t keep teaching our children the false history that we were taught. But, maybe we can spare some of the details until they are older.<\/p>\n<p>On a lighter note, I was very pleased to hear how everyone was treated equal throughout the tribes. Men and women had different roles, yet that was not meant to demean anyone. It was simply how they thrived as a community. Men respected the women for the role they played, and the women respected the men. I personally do not understand how certain men can look down on women with such contempt as they have for some time. I&#8217;m not saying men and women have to have specific roles in the complex world that we live in now, I just think we can learn from the way they respect one another for what one can accomplish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my first week of American Indian Studies 210, I have learned more about Indian Americans than I have learned for my whole life. While reading through Everything You Wanted to Know about Indians But Were Afraid to Ask,\u00a0by Anton Treuer, I was able to hear an Indians side of our history. I was told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13803,"featured_media":110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-week-1"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/amin210-ss18\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13951\/2018\/06\/Profile-Pictures.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/amin210-ss18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","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\/13803"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/amin210-ss18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/amin210-ss18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224,"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/amin210-ss18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/amin210-ss18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/amin210-ss18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/amin210-ss18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/amin210-ss18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}