“By 1871, the federal government stopped signing treaties
with Native Americans and replaced the treaty system with a law giving
individual Indians ownership of land that had been tribal property. This
"Indian Homestead Act," official known as the Dawes Act, was a way
for some Indians to become U.S. citizens. This created complex problems
for Native Americans. What did you learn from watching the
documentary, "In the White Man's Image?"
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From “In The White Man’s Image”, I learned how the white men separated Native Americans from their tribes and “assimilated” them into the general population. The white men believed that incorporating Native Americans into the American life helped them become individuals rather than savages. However, this attempt took their identity. The Indian schools, including Carlisle and Geneva, forced Native American to speak English and punished them for speaking their native languages so many young students were so homesick that they tried to run away and some students even died because of the harsh punishments and intensive living experience. The white men did things that they thought were right, but they ruthlessly ended an innocent children’s life and destroyed a harmony family. Removing Native Americans from their land and placing them into the Indian schools were wrong because we caused them a lot of hardships, took something from them that wasn’t ours to take. I think everyone should be respectful to every culture and maintain a sense of identity that belongs to us.
After watching "In the White Man's Image", I can only imagine what it was like for them. I would feel so violated if someone talked down to me and told me that I couldn't speak my own language. I know that they wanted to "Americanize" the Native Americans, but I don't understand the reasoning behind it. They went into their territory and stripped them of their culture and identity. If they didn't respect the Native American's culture, I don't see how they could possibly expect that Native Americans could respect ours.
After watching "In the White Man's Image" I learned that my opinion of the united states being a perfect country allowing everyone to be themselves was wrong. I always knew that other countries have been horrible to their people but I never knew our country has done the same. The federal government did the worst possible thing you can do to a person, which is forcing them to give up their identity. The federal government forced the native Americans to give up their land and send their children away to learn English and the American culture. The government forced the kids to live in horrible conditions and the native Americans had to become citizens. I never knew my country did something like this, I never knew at one point, the leaders of our country were so cruel.
The documentary “In the White Man’s Image” was all about the struggle between Native Americans and whites over land. I was already familiarized with this topic since we had touched upon it in my history class last year. However, it still amazes me how the Americans took the Native’s land with such ease. Not only did they confiscate their land, but they also stripped them of their identity by assimilating them into the general population. I suppose it’s not fair to make this generalization about all of the whites, but why didn’t they feel morally regretful and responsible for the physical and emotional destruction of so many native lives? I believe greed was the driving force behind the actions of the American government.
I think it was sad how the Americans were so convinced that the only way to deal with the native Americans was to destroy their culture completely. it discounts me that they couldn't learn to live in harmony. and It disappoint me how an entire group of people was just slowly dissolved into the American nation.
After watching "In The White Man's Image" I realized how cruel the whites were to many of the Native American's. The whites not only took away some of their freedom, but restricted their spiritual freedom. The Native American culture and family life was so significant to them that taking the children and making them into American soldiers ruined two huge aspects of their lives. The Whites ruined the Native American lifestyle which is why it was so cruel.
I learned about how the Native Americans were forced to change their cultural identity by whites. Their land was unfairly taken from them, and the whites made them learn American ways. Richard Pratt took Indians off reservations and integrated them into white society by putting them in schools. He targeted the children because changing the children will transform the people. The establishment of Native American schools became common, even though the children did not enjoy there time there. I learned that there is a lot of cruelty and self-interest present in some people, and many do not think about the consequences of their actions. It is important to remember not to infringe on other people’s rights and to keep other people’s wishes in mind. We can all learn not to make the same destructive decisions that the white settlers made.
I believe that the documentary was trying to show how Pratt had good intentions, but his actions had horrible consequences. He wanted to try and save the Native American people by teaching them to act like white people. However, he ended up tearing families apart and destroying entire cultures. This all resulted from him trying to change something that he didn't understand, thinking that he knew best. What i took away from this video was that you have to understand something before you try to improve it.
After watching "The White Mans image" I was socked with what these Native Americans had to go through. I was shocked that the Americans would treat the Natives like that. I can't even imagine how they must have felt. Everyone is equal no matter what others think. Everyone deserives to be trated equally.This anger that the White man felt was all because of land. Which shows how degrading some people can be, fighting over something so pathetic as land. People should never be able to treat other human beings like that. What I got out of this movie is that you never know what something is like or what someone is experiencing intill you are in their shoes so treat someone the way you would like to be treated.
In the film "In the White Man's Image" . Learned the struggle the Native Americans had to face. Just because they were different the white men attacked them. This relates to the Holocaust and how Hitler wanted to wipe out the Jews because they were different. I learned that the native American kids were sent to different school to become assimilated. Schools like Carlisle and Geneva. However this didn't work.
I think most Americans are familiar with our famous and great move west. Brave families that start over and find a new place for themselves. But that’s only one side of the story, and I learned about the other side today. I knew that Native Americans weren’t treated fairly, and I knew that we took their land, but I wasn’t aware of the individual stories. Their culture was stripped of them, and although I truly believe it was well intentioned by the man that was doing it, it was still a devastating thing to watch. No one should be forced to give up their culture and family and language just because they don’t look or act like the people next to them. Most whites thought they were savage, but I think if some of them had just put themselves in Native American shoes, they may have looked at this in a different way.
After watching "the White MAn's Image" I have a much better understating of the struggle the native american children went through. I thought the before and after images were most interesting because they two completely different people. I understand that Pratt believed he was helping them but I am surprised that the Native American tribes gave up so many of their children. I also wish the children that died were buried by their families and not the white men. I wonder how many of the parents actually knew their child had died.
From watching "In The White Man's Image" I found it disheartening that the Americans viewed Native Americans as savage. The Natives simply had their own customs and way of living and the whites felt like they had to make them civilized. One Native American that went to one of the schools began to believe that he should be more like a civilized white man. He really began to give in to the power of the group and began to lose his identity as a Native American in the process.
By watching "In the White Man's Image" I was able to better see the struggles that Native Americans faced. Prior to this I already had a little bit of knowledge on the subject from my history class last year, but through this film I was actually able to see the conditions that the Native American people were forced to live under. I think that it was incredibly naive of the Americans to think that conforming Native Americans to their own culture was a good idea, as they did not seem to recognize the fact that one's identity is absolutely central to them, and is not something that should be taken away. I can only imagine how awful the Native Americans must have felt about having their culture stripped from them. I was surprised to learn about the way that the Americans dealt with children however, by completely taking them from their families, resulting in the deaths of many of them. The lack of respect that was shown form the Americans to the Native Americans is something that I hope does not repeat itself often, or preferably not at all.
From watching "In The White Man's Image" I learned that white settlers like Richard Pratt tried to kill the Native American culture by putting the Natives into schools. It started with a few Natives that got transferred to a Spanish fort in Florida, they were held captive for months. After that "success" the white settlers began to take Native children far from their homes and then changed everything about them. This was a way of assimilating them into white culture.
While watching "In the White Man's Image" I was able to learn about the cultural struggles the Native Americans had to deal with during this time period. With the white men encroaching, many of them were forced to change their life styles and lose an important level of spirituality that they carried with them during their daily rituals. I think the hardest thing to see was the children that were taken away from their parents in order to assimilate into white culture so that future generations of Native Americans would be more "civilized" and less "savage." Being able to hear the Native American's side of their families being split up really showed me that their culture and spirituality were altered greatly by the pressures of the white people.
After watching "In the White Man's Image" and reading the backround information, I was deeply troubled by what our nation did the Indian tribes in the past. I was aware of the mass killings and of things like the "trail of tears". But, I find this attempt to almost brainwash the Indians but forcing their children into white schools to be just about as bad. The thing that struck me most was how not long ago this was happening. I always thought that our wrongs against the Native Americans were committed long ago, before the year 1900, and then we got smarter and realized we shouldn't be treating other human beings this way. What struck me was that these things were continuing still about 80 years ago. I find that shocking and inexcusable. The effects still show today, with a majority of those from Native American descent living below the poverty line. Nothing we can do today can truly make up for the injustices we committed to them in the not-so-distant past.
After watching "In the White Man's Image" I was very surprised to see how the Native Americans were treated. It was very upsetting to learn that the majority of the problems had to do with land. I thought it was very interesting to see the transformation the natives went through. The before and after pictures were very shocking. I believe that what happened to the Natives was very wrong and believe that everyone should be treated equally.
after watching " in the white man's image" I was really surprised with how the white man treated Native Americans. I believe one of the worst things you can take away from a person is their identity. The fact that they made the Native Americans not speak their native language and dress differently was cruel. I don't understand why the white man would try to change the way that the Indians lived. I feel like the white man should have approached the situation differently instead of disrespecting the native Americans like that.
after i watched in the white mans image. it gave me a real seance of how sick the white man was to the native Americans. the fact that they would take them away from their family at such a young age and try and turn them into something they weren't. The whites not only took away their freedom, but they took away their way of life and their spiritual practices. that is not how america does things. their first amendment being striped away because of someone thinking their better.
after i watched in the white mans image. it gave me a real seance of how sick the white man was to the native Americans. the fact that they would take them away from their family at such a young age and try and turn them into something they weren't. The whites not only took away their freedom, but they took away their way of life and their spiritual practices. that is not how america does things. their first amendment being striped away because of someone thinking their better.
From watching "In the White Man's Image", I learned about Manifest Destiny from the point of view of the Native American. I felt horrible hearing about what the whites in America did to the Natives in that time. An entire people was wiped out and an entire culture was wiped out with it. Looking at it from the outside, its horrible to see how one race could look down at another because of their customs and how they lived, and then force them to change. The video made me think that there is an importance in respecting someone's culture and respecting their identity because without those someone's culture is lost.
in the white man's image further enlightened me about how indians were treated by the whites. this specifically reminded me about many of the events i had learned last year. it specifically showed the attitudes toward native amerian schooling. their immediate dismissal of the natives as being unable to learn was cruel. seeing this opened my eyes to the prpejudices nttive americans had faced.
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