“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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After watching the film "In the White Man's image", I don't think it was fair what the white men did to the Indians. They stripped the Indians of their culture and their way of life. The white men believed they were superior to everyone and wanted the Indians to become U.S citizens. In this film the white men tried to turn the Indians into something they were not. This created tension between the Indians and the white men as the white men took away Indians tribes and way of life. The white men were greedy and controlling over the Indians when they were better off before the white men took over.
the film "in the white man's image", it showed how unfair the Indians were treated by the white settlers. the Indians were stripped from there cultural and had to get used the white man's cultural. Indians did not have a say on how they were treated although they had been there before the white settlers.
The movie "In the White Man's Image" is a real life video that shows how poorly Indians were treated by white men. The white men thought that they had been more dominant and they could control the Indian people. Indians were constantly being pushed arond in the U.S. and made Indians adapt to what the white men wanted. The Indians are not given much of a choice by the White men.
The documentary "In the White Man's Image" shows how unfair it was for the white men to treat the Indians. The Indians had been on that land way before white men came to the Americas and began to claim the land as theirs. The Indians did not do anything wrong they were their first and it was their land. Not only did the white men take away the Indian's land, they also tried to strip away there culture. The white men believed that they had to "kill the Indian and save the man". They tried to get Indian children into schools to teach them English and turn them into "white men". This was unjust the Indians should have had the right to live how they pleased and with there own beliefs and cultures.
After watching the film I felt that the native Americans were not only ill treated by the Whites but also were forced to leave there custom s and values and transfer into a White. The whites forced the Indians to get educated , dress like whites and behave like them. This was a way not to promote equality among Indians and Whites but to show the Indians are minority and should be ruled by the Whites. The whites wanted to finish the tribes of Indians and their culture.
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After watching the Documentary "In the white mans image", I really saw how poorly the Native Americans were treated by the whites in order to assimilate them. They took natives from their tribes and villages, put them in new clothes and gave them new haircuts to finish the physical transformation from Native to White man. Native Americans were forced into learning and living a new culture so fast which is wrong.
I was absent for this film.
"In the White Man's Image" shows how misguided the settlers truly were. They never stopped to look at the other persons point of view. How in the eyes of an Indian they are the terrorists to this land. They are the ones who caused all the destruction of the Indian's homes, land and families. From the settlers standpoint they were being brave coming here and didn't want to voyage across the ocean empty handed(which is very time consuming). Some settlers may have put all there money into coming on the ship to start a new life in America. Both sides had there reasons for the land but the Natives never deserved to be treated the way the "white men" did. They need to respect the Natives and treat them as they would "more civilized" people.
Wanting to trade one's culture in for another's is one thing, but being forced into it is more cowardly than anything else. The Whites viewed themselves as the superior race; more civilized and educated and advanced. They saw the Indians as the barabaric, uneducated indian savages, just because they were afraid of the differences in culture and life styles. They thought if they could take that Indian man and take away anything and everything that defined him, they could eliminate all of their differences and be the same. They did this all in the pretense of helping the poor, simple Indians. They took their children and transformed them so that their was no Indian left and claimed that they were educating them to further benefit the tribes, turning them into American soldiers. Thus, the proud race became victims, separated not only from their culture, but also their families and homes.
"In the White Man's Image" is a film about the way Native Americans were treated by the "white" people post American Civil War. I thought the film was very interesting because it showed how the "white" people tried so hard to make the Native Americans "civilized". The "white" culture was dominate at this time and members believed themselves to be superior to the rest. At this time period, the way Native Americans were being treated was not seen as wrong and therefore many people supported some of the horrible things "white" people were doing. Many of the Native Americans took up the "white" culture leaving their indigenous culture behind and forming a new identity. I believe what the "white" people did to the Native Americans was wrong but I also believe this event needed to happen in order for future generations to learn it was wrong.
The film "White Man's Image" shows a very bad time in American history. The white settlers at the time wanted to strip Native American's culture away from them and assimilate them so that they could "fit" into American society. The white settlers viewed themselves superior to the Natives and treated them very poorly. This idea goes completely against what America was founded for such as religious and cultural freedom.
"In the White Man's Image" really left a lasting effect. I know that pretty much everyone in the class had heard about the mistreatment of Native Americans by White Settlers since Columbus first landed on North America, but there is a huge difference between reading a paragraph about it in a history text book and watching a documentary where pictures and stories were told of the heartbreaking events that took place. The White men referred to themselves as civilized and educated (showing their belief of superiority over the Native Americans). They believed the Natives to be the exact opposite of them, and forced them into assimilation. They tried to take away the Native American's identities by saying "kill the Indian, leave the man." This film drew a lot of sympathy towards the Native Americans.
"In the White Man's Image" is a film that shows a little of what, over the centuries, man has used power for evil. In this film, two races come into a clash and only one was able to come out on the top. Because of such perverted ideals and ways of thinking, the white man was able to strip the identities of the natives and transform them into something they weren't. Because the "savages" weren't "civilized" according to the white man, they were thrown into camps where they were taught how to be "civilized". Forcing people to undergo such change and strip them of their identities is harsh and shouldn't be done so. They should decide for themselves and not let someone else take control for them
What I learned in the film "In the White Man's Image" was that Native Americans were treated very unfairly by white men. White men saw the Indians as uncivilized savages who were basically not even human. The white men attempted to make the Indians more civilized by taking them prisoner and putting them into a jail while teaching them about white culture. I felt as though the idea was a good idea, but the Indian's should have had a choice to assimilate to the white culture rather than being imprisoned and forced to assimilate. The whites acted very unfairly to a proud race of people who were just trying to hold onto their own culture.
After watching “The White Man’s Image” I have a better understanding of the treatment of Native Americans and how unfair they were treated. The film showed How poorly the Americans treated the Native American’s and how they just tricked them into becoming more American. Americans took their land, culture, and homes and destroyed them and tried to turn them into Whites. After watching the film it left me realizing how important it was to understand the mistakes we made and really learn from these mistakes and how we mistreated these people.
I thought this documentary was very interesting. By watching this film, I felt really bad for the Native Americans. They were forced to leave their land and assimilate to american culture and if they didn't, they would be put to prison. It's unfortunate that they couldn't be accepted for who they were but instead were forced to be something they weren't, and were looked down up on for being different.
"In the White Man's Image" is a film about the way in which the Native Americans were treated by the "white" people after the Civil War. I found the documentary to be incredibly interesting, especially how the whites tried to conform the Indians into being "civilized," in their sense of the term. The culture of the white people was more predominant in the area, at the time; this wealth of cultural acceptance allowed the whites to believe that they were superior to the Indians. The Native Americans were being treated as criminals, so no one thought twice about the cruel ways in which they were treated; inadvertently supporting what the whites were doing. Many of the Native Americans adopted the identity of the whites and conformed to their ideas/beliefs, casting away any sense of their old identity as spiritual Native Americans. I do not believe that the treatment of the Native Americans was in any way fair; they were stripped of their culture, as well as their identities. The Indians should have had the right to live their lives as they so desired, without consent of the white men.
Before watching " In the White Mas's Image" I had an understanding of what happened to the natives here in the U.S, and I knew that the treatment of the settlers towards the natives was totally detrimental for them. What I didn't know was to what extent it was. After seeing he film I saw that the settlers stripped the natives of their culture.Which in my opinion is a much greater offense than taking land. They indoctrinated the native children so that they would be like the settlers. That would ultimately exterminate native culture, or at least that was the goal. Also when trying to educate the natives the settlers disregarded the native culture completely. For example they cut the natives hair. In the native culture thats a sign of mourning. The settlers sense of superiority allowed them to blindly ruin a rich culture with the thought that they were helping.
I learned from watching the documentary "In the White Man's Image" that the whites were much less obliged to assimilate the Native Americans than i originally thought. I didn't realize how both parties hated each other and how hard it must have been to a Native American at this time. The whites truly believed they were the superior race. It's interesting to have seen just how little the whites cared for the Native's well-being and even less for their culture. What surprised me the most was how they treated them, by locking them in prisons and planning to have them executed, but instead choosing to save and assimilate them.
"In The White Mans Image" showed me a lot more reality of how the white settlers treated the Native Americans. It has never made sense to me to this day why there were so many wars and battles took place during these times, but it shows through the film. The white settlers were greedy and not understanding of the Natives point of view. The Native Americans had the land long before the white settlers came,and shouldn't have been forced out of it. The way things were done were definitely unfair and I understand why the Natives fought back. The Native Americans had their identities taken away once their culture and land was forced to end by the white settlers which isn't right. They should have been able to keep certain lands where they wouldn't be bothered in order to keep initial a group
"In the White mans Image" I never realized how poorly the whites treated the native Americans. The whites thought they were so much better than the native Americans and that they had the right to take away their culture from them. This was extremely unfair considering the Native Americans didn't do anything to deserve this. It goes to show that by one group or person attacking another group can cause a war figuratively and literally speaking.
"In the White Man's image" is a documentary that tells of the mistreatment of Native Americans by white Americans in the late 1800's and early 1900's. It focuses particularly on Richard Pratt's founding of the Carlisle School for Indians, a school that attempted to assimilate Native American children into traditional American culture. The film gave me a better idea of the extent the American government went to in order to destroy Native American culture and force them to act like white European-Americans. While Americans may have thought it was the turning of savage and barbaric people into civilized men, the reality is that the attempt to assimilate Native Americans was a true cultural genocide.
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