Johniera McClain
USH History
https://dl-web.dropbox.com/get/NHD.m4v?w=d7dd1fe8Quarter Three Benchmark Reflection
The topic came across by my history
teacher bringing up the Native American boarding schools when we suggested that
we wanted to do an odd/unique topic that not many people speak upon. Slavery
within races is talked about in many ways and under many lights but it is rare
for it to be on the slavery of a Native American. That is one of the main
reasons that this topic was chosen.
The group documentary as the type
of presentation that was selected for the format of presenting this project was
decided based upon the fact that it would be convenient for us to transform our
papers into something visual for the audience to view. It was something that we
knew that the main primary sources would be easier shown than explained. The
abuse and Americanization of the Native Americans are shown through photos, and
interviews.
The trouble that was caused by
trying to do this project was the time management. The mishap of
procrastinating tripped me up when it came around for the project to be almost
due. I believe if I could have a good week to just still work on the project,
it would be so much better than what it is now. Although I cannot sit here and
say that I am not proud of the work that I handed in, because I’m definitely
content to what the project blossomed to be. As of now, I think that if I had to the whole project all
over I would probably instead of turning in a group documentary I would do an
individual paper or a group performance.
Throughout doing this project, I
learned that Native Americans really are settlers and that a government has
stripped their morals and values that really are not at all the people whom
have founded this place. The Native Americans have been conquered by a government
and been placed on special places that are considered to be theirs, when really
all of it is theirs. It’s a shame, that the United States government has
degraded a people that have done nothing but be good to them and manipulate
them to a place where they were considered to be as low as a savage.
The government can civilize and Americanize
a group of people that were here on this soil first and brain wash them to
become a group of people that is
of what now to be American like.
