Where to begin?<\/p>\n
American Indian studies thus far has taught me a lot. It’s hard to narrow down just one day in class to talk about, especially since this week we’re only posting one blog post about our in-class experience.<\/p>\n
Something that I found extremely interesting, though, was the colonization process. I’ve always known that colonization happened, but I personally have never sat down and thought out how it happens or what leads to the total annihilation of a race or people. It also boggles my mind how one group of people, the Spanish, had absolutely no respect for the native populations of Hispaniola. It’s very apparent that the Spanish had different values than those of the natives. The Spanish would rather exterminate the entire population for gold rather than set up some sort of trade agreement, simply based off the fact that the Native People killed 39 Spaniards for heinous crimes they committed\u00a0against the natives.<\/p>\n
Also, in Anton Treuer’s \u00a0book, “Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask”, we see that in many Native American tribes women held a lot of power. This changed drastically after European settlers arrived and refused to talk to the tribal women due to their beliefs that women could not be capable of holding political powers.<\/p>\n
Overall, I’m baffled by how forward thinking the Native People of North America were and how barbaric and cruel the people from the “civilized world” were. I also find it completely awesome how the Native People of the Americas were so adamant about preservation and tried to establish a good relationship with the Spaniards.<\/p>\n
Obviously that failed.<\/p>\n
It just goes to show that there are two sides to every story and we’ve been taught one side, and now seeing more into the other side, I am just shook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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