Posted by dgray21 | Posted in Social Studies | Posted on October 24, 2018
Some Native Americans do not like the term Native American. Explain why they reject this name.
I think they reject the name because they think that they aren’t really native anymore
One person in the BBC Video said that living in poverty does not mean they are poor. What do you think he meant by that?
I think that they meant that The native Americans live in poverty but they can still make money and not be poor.
Some Native Americans approve of the team name Redskins. What is their reason for approving this name while others do not?
I think that they think that it’s okay because maybe it strongly represents their culture.
In the CNN segment, there was a story told about a woman who used to approve of the name Redskins, and now does not. What changed? Why does she no longer approve of the name?
I think that the reason she approved of the name earlier was that it was something that strongly represented their culture and how they lived. What change was that they stopped doing some of the things that they were doing for their culture and people still thought it was an accurate representation of them.
How can non-Native people help others learn about Native Americans current issues? What can we do to help?
I think that we can learn to respect the native Americans as we would do to our other friends.
