Indians in School Textbook Research

Savage is defined as a member of a people regarded as primitive and uncivilized and savagery is defined as the quality of being fierce or cruel. Today I used a textbook archive to search about the findings of Indians in the New World and what the settlers thought about them. But also before the time of coming to the New World the Vikings, or the Northmen, first came to calling the Indians, savages. I understood that once the Englishmen were starting to get killed by Indians the name "savages" came up. This then started the conflict of the English and Indians and the uprising of the name. The word savages started to pop up in the text when the story of Captain Smith came up. As a student reading the text, I would shape they way Native Americans are viewed in a bad way because they were named since the beginning savages. Which is a cruel way of putting it, because every person in the world is a human being and nobody should be treated the way the English treated the Indians. Just like Savagery is defined as a quality of being fierce or cruel, cruel is the main influence on innocent people.

Savagery

Letter from Indians in Newspaper

Monday, October 31, 1887

Dear Mama,

I was sitting in The P.K. Saloon waiting for my meal, when I saw a couple of Indians walking around. I could tell looking through the window they were Crows because most of is whites acknowledged them. Some I noticed had white wives, which i had never seen before and was confused. Whites and Indians are starting to get together? What? Sometimes I wonder how the Indians came to so much fortune, but others I just try to ignore them and not stare. Later that day after getting off from my shift at the lumber yard, I hurried home, but on the way home witnessed the Indians doing something very strange. "Wrapping the deceased in blankets and buffalo robes and fastening them to forks on the tree". I sat and watched for a while, until I got a whiff of an unbearable odor and hurried away. I read earlier in the local newspaper that Chiefs of the Crows Indians are becoming deceased, which was probably the reason for this smell. This was very weird sight for me to see and I didn't realize any of this was happening in this city, I call home. To everyone else the Indians are starting to seem more as friends than foes here in Hailey, Idaho, which has changed a lot. I feel that times have changed a lot because they are shaping our community into a better society.

Miss you,
Bill

Crow Indians

Indians in the News

The article I read was titled The Indian Troubles, which talks about how the Indians are not actually poor as everyone says they are, but they are actually the opposite. "The Indians are called poor, but they are in reality the richest people in the world in proportion to their numbers." The Indians are so successful by their lands they own, positions, and jobs in society. Below the headlines it says, "Our rich Indians- Families at $35,000 each and tribes at $3,000 per head. The chiefs passing away- civilizing the Indians slow work. The article also discusses the how the death of chiefs effect the tribes and what goes on. How they are not rivals to the white people but starting to help them improve in many important aspects. Also the Americans are trying to educate the Indians on language and writing and other important things to them. This article illustrates the exact opposite of what I thought it would be by the headline. It talks about how Americans and Indians are working together to make vast improvements in their societies by coming together.

Deep Thinking

"Our use of social media for news is selective and intentional so that we may tend to remain interested only in things that were are already interested in. On the other hand, professional news outlets like newspapers expose readers to information on a broad range of topics this helps me to see what other people are interested in or think is important."

Newspaper Exhibits Post

3. A newspaper is defined as "a set of large sheets of paper that have news stories, information about local events, advertisements, etc., and that are folded together and sold every day or every week". 
4. The first newspaper that came into existence by Germany was in 1609.
5. The very oldest newspapers in the United States was The Boston News-Letter, The New-England Courant, The New Hampshire Gazette, and The Hartford Courant.
6. The New York Times shows their leading stories as things going on in Russia, ISIS, the 2016 election, and planned parenthood. 
7. The meaning of the newspaper of record is a “major newspaper that has a large circulation and whose editorial and news-gathering functions are considered professional and typically authoritative”. The US newspaper that was first designated as the nation’s newspaper of record in 1913 was The New York Times. Other US papers that are considered to be a newspaper of record Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post.
8. Their are many differences between newspapers and social media. One big difference between the two is that a newspaper is written on paper, and social media is written online. When you think of social media people think of Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, ect. All of these social medias are used as tools of viewing news just like a newspaper exhibits but faster and more efficiently. Any mobile device or device with wifi can tell you what is going on through social media without needing to look at a newspaper. They are used to keep people updated just like The New York Times and USA Today online does. News is more updated when it is published online because it keeps you more updated on the go. In the old days for news to be updated on a newspaper they would have to reprint it and hand out the Extra newspaper. Social media keeps people more updated by a push of a button because it is constantly being talked about on TV, Twitter, and other significant social medias. Just like the how picking a song on your phone is difference between having a song being played on the radio. Your more interested in the song the radio plays rather than choosing it yourself. The music playing shows the difference between looking at a newspaper different from social media.

9. Newspaper

1st Quarter Recap

This first quarter in US History has been fairly successful. I haven't learned about US History since the Eighth Grade so this first quarter has been a good refresher and opener with the Civil War and Slavery. This quarter I have learned a lot more than I usually do the first quarter of History. I have learned about paraphrasing and incorporating quotes in my paraphrasing, which I was helpful. Interpreting if a source is "high quality", like the difference between the NY Times and a 10 year olds blog about the movie Glory. We also discussed the difference between empathy and sympathy, learning about analyzing primary sources for the two films we watched and then putting our skills to the test by hyperlinking, blogging, posting it, uploading the blog, and captioning a photo in the blog. We had started off the year by learning about the Civil War and how connects to slavery even in the South and North of the United States. And after the Civil War how their was a constitution but not a real one because African Americans did not have as many rights as they do now and as the whites in the United States. This lead to discussion of Black Codes which led to Reconstruction. After we were done with the Civil War and slavery we went straight to the topic of the Western and different events that had occurred during this time. We had used the topic of Empathy to understand the films, Glory and Twelve Years a Slave. We also had drawn conclusions from data about the films sales made from Box Office. Also how slavery was more involved in southern states and who it connects to them being the poorest states in the United States.

Overall from this first quarter in US History I have grown as a better writer and thinker. Writing in my blogs and with the skills of posting a blog, paraphrasing, and hyperlinking items that needed to be hyperlinked. This quarter my areas that I have really succeeded in was paraphrasing and incorporating in quotes in my paragraphs. I have thought a lot more about the significance of my homework and classwork. I realize if I didn't pay attention in class, I would not be able to understand how to do my homework or participate in discussions in our small groups. I understood how to paraphrase important items that would benefit my essays in the future. In History I hope to grow to make my blogging more efficient. By instead of writing full on paragraphs on my notecards, bullet points that are less wordy. Also showing more evidence in my essay would have benefited me.  I now know how to actually paraphrase a paragraph without feeling conscience about turning it in. And I feel more confident with identifying accurate and important "high-quality" sources that will benefit my writing and learning skills. Last year in my works cited I missed the most last year because my citations didn't have a certain level of accuracy in the. I hope to further my knowledge of the Western part of the United States, as I have not particularly learned this before. I'd like to understand more about the involvement of the United States in World War II. This quarter's work and effort I have put is how I will be working the next 3 Quarters in US History.

Native American Post

I read about the fashion of the Native Americans and the fashion controversy with the 2015 New York Fashion Show. The controversy was between the designer Bethany Yellowtail and London established company called KTZ. Quoted from BBC by Bethany Yellowtail wrote "The dress as stated on my website embodies a Crow design from my great great grandmother...funny I didn't realize @ktz_official knew the Yellowtails or the Crow people,". Also quoted from BBC said, “[…] but what happens when you blatantly take cultural valuable designs from Indigenous people?[…]”. Personally I think this is not only disrespectful to the designer, Bethany Yellowtail, but also the Native Americans and her family who originated the style. The fact that this dress had been produced the year before and was released the next year in the 2015 Fashion Show frustrates me. Stealing ideas and designs from one designer an putting it toward your outfit has been done before. But when it has to do with indigenous peoples designs that have been passed down from generations it is not so easy. Picture 1 shows Bethany's designs from 2014 and KTZ's dress "that they created". In image 2 it shows the influenced designs and geometric shapes that influenced Bethany Yellowtail's dress and design she created. In my opinion even if you do get caught copying another designers design it still is not fair and right to that designer that spent the time on it, and if they had special significance to it.

 Picture 1: Native American Fashion

Picture 2: Bag that Influenced Bethany's Dress