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As they state on page 119, Native youth "often feel stranded between two cultures." The sense of isolation and dislocation this creates is enormous and detrimental to the well-being of individuals and the community. The authors' perceptions on the psychological isolation and community fragmentation shed light on the many social problems within American Indian populations.
Readers will be struck by the demographic data that the authors present. For example, child abuse and neglect are all too common within the Native American populations. The problems of parents are passed on to their children: poverty and psychological neglect both create intergenerational problems. Also, psychologists have paid relatively little attention to the specific needs of Native persons; historically they have been a neglected and forgotten group of people. Forced acculturation and assimilation has undermined individuals' mental health as well as the health of the...
They describe tribal structure and spirituality briefly yet in a way relevant to social science. Learning about Native American family structures can help counselors and social workers understand how best to approach Native-specific mental health issues. The authors also present facts that are little well-known about American Indians due to widespread stereotyping: for example, they note that "autonomy is valued among American Indians," and children are "expected to make their own decisions and operate semi-independently at an early age," (122). However, Native Americans are also encouraged to form a strong sense of cooperation and respect for community and family. LaFramboise and Graff Low's article shows that Native cultures deserve to be studied more in depth by social…
but, those same laws were immediately enacted by the Federal government and from that origin, became immediately binding - the Cherokee would be held to be covered by Federal but not state law. Those members of Congress who supported the removal policies became instrumental in the build-up toward the Trail of Tears. American aggressive expansionism was what drove the forced removal from their land. Whites had expanded to the edges
American Indian Movement The poorest people in America are the American Indians and it is also a fact that Indian reservations have unique laws that has made it a nation by itself within the United States. The modern movements focus on the American Indian reservations being empowered by self-determination. This is important for the economic, social and cultural improvement of the American Indians. It was with the Nixon administration that the
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With the advent of Colombo on the American soil, things began to change as Philip J. Deloria asserts in her book Playing Indian (1999): "[T]he self-defining pairing of American truth with American freedom rests on the ability to wield power against Indians... while simultaneously drawing power from them." This is also the basic idea of Shari M. Huhndorf's Going Native: Indians in the American Cultural Imagination. "As white Americans
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