Instruction
video one - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fhRGnWISuo
questions
1. The discussion of this history begins with Charles Wilkinson’s comment that Indians have always attempted to build a new way of life from the time of first contact with Europeans. Broadly speaking, do you feel that the ‘rule of discovery’ has affected the shaping of federal Indian policy during the entire history of our relationship with Native Americans or has become less important with the passage of time? Please provide examples that you feel support the notion that this was a temporary condition or continues to shape federal Indian law.
2. . The Royal Proclamation of 1763 is the first-known formal written reference to “Indian County.” As described in the film, it seems to have had a mixed effect in shaping policy toward Indians in terms of the notion of ‘sovereign nations.’ Discuss your own impressions of how the evolving nature of formal law and policies have changed in the intervening years since this British law was first written and how these changes help us to understand both the writing of future laws and treaties and how this conditions both the attitude Native Americans have toward their relationship with the federal government and whether or not policy that has evolved has been for the determent or advancement of native peoples. Please provide examples that suggest future trends in this relationship.
video two- https://search-alexanderstreet-com.proxy.libraries.rutgers.edu/anth/view/work/bibliographic_entity%7Cvideo_work%7C764806
Question
3. The Quinault Indian people and other Indian tribes along the Pacific coast or up in the Canada are discussed in a later segment of the film. The 1855 Quinault River Treaty ceded a sizable portion of land to the Quinault who had traditionally been a fishing society. They never gave up their sovereign rights to self-government, but policies later enacted by the Bureau of Indian Affairs proved to have a negative impact on the Quinault. Discuss how in spite of poor management by the BIA the Quinault were able to resolve these problems. What does the example of the Quinault say about how the IRA in some cases, has been an effective ‘tool’ in the quest for Indian self-rule, and whether you envision this a real possibility for other Native nations?