Negative Effects On Native American Indians

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Historically, ancestral knowledge, traditional and popular knowledge have been victims of the colonization. This is a reality along resistance to colonization has been discussed in various areas of thought and action in the American Indians. While it is true that the American Indians, generally occupy the lower strata of the socioeconomic scale, the fact remains that that position is not exclusive to them, but they share a large segment of the American population, around half of the population of the region. The Indians are not only poor, they are different. In fact they are discriminated against for being poor and being indigenous; by, backward, inefficient and primitive; not having the same beliefs and values of the national society; for …show more content…

Often treated as invisible, they are not giving value to their way of life, but in other regions struggle to stay "clean", ensuring that will last for many centuries their customs. American Indians have a long process of many years to rediscover their roots and seek to keep them, which, to remain so, we ensure a future as a community. It discriminates against its population without understanding their customs and sometimes treated as individuals under. Indigenous peoples have been "notably absent" in the constitution of modern society; although numerous, they are a minority in the social allocation of decision-making and control. Native Americans are deeply affected, as their companies have been remodeled from the ground, was altered its ethnic composition and degraded …show more content…

Ethnic and some forms of regional differentiation are the result of long-term historical processes that have generated carriers and creators of social systems own distinctive cultures. It is a clear conceptual distinction between inequality and difference, to advance the understanding of the problem without neglecting any of its substantial dimensions. There inequality, when relations between culturally distinct social groups are asymmetric, domination / subordination. No difference, when such groups are organized as defined social universes, that exclusive custodians of cultural heritage in the broadest sense of the term that has been handed to them by previous generations and about forging a collective identity which assumed differentiated and exclusive-an "us" versus "the others. The term Indainness is the definition of how much Indian blood you have. The blood quantum is how Indians count how pure blood they are. Full blood Indians are considered real Indians, while quintessential Indians are less. You can be born on a reservation know your tribes dialect, know more than your community as a whole and still not be part of the civic, but someone who just moved in who is full blood is. The intention for the blood quantum was so based on that their government could tell who was really Indian, and know what their finical

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