1. Land Disputes
a. Energy Transfer Co.
b. Lakota, Dakota and Nakota tribes
The Energy Transfer company is taking up most of the land tribes live on to build big pipes to transfer energy. But, the tribes want their land back so they are using violent weapons and protesting against the security and company.
2. Artifact Return
a. John Barrymore
b. Johnathan Rowan
John Barrymore stole a totem pole from the Tlingit tribe and Jonathan Rowan from Alaska talks about how it upsets him that the John stole a prized possession from his tribe.
3. Native American Casinos
a. Native Americans
b. Government
The problem is that the native american casinos are really corrupt and have gone out of control. The government wants to
4. Governmental Recognition (Native Hawaiians)
a. Affirmative
b. Negative
Natives in Hawaii have been there for thousands of years and they want to be recognised as a tribe for potential benefits, but they government wont allow it.
5. Legacy of Indian Schools
a. European's- Richard Henry Pratt
b. Native's- Jim Thorpe
Europeans took Native children from their tribes to give them health, an education at a boarding school, but Jim Thorpe said it was wrong to take kids away from their home and giving the idea that they are in bad conditions and won't be able to live there.
6. Portrayal of Native Americans in Movies and/or Media
a. Reporter
b. New Jersey
New York reporter says how people say the disney movie Pocahontas is too sexual because it was about Pocahontas's romance and changed her body and age when Pocahontas was originally 10-11 years old. But, the reporter says that without the movie Pocahontas wouldn't have been known and it is not about the visual image it is about learning the story, and it is portraying freedom. But the other reporter from New Jersey says how it is too stereotyped and sexual from short clothes to ideal image. The hollywood Native Americans say they are being harassed and giving a stereotype of what they do.
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