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Professor Utzman
ENGL 2331-#
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The subjugation of basic rights, ethnic degradation, stereotyping whatnot that the race of Indian
Americans have faced. While the widespread of America as a continent, there were many tribes
that were affected due to the superiority claim of the Americans. Anti-Black and anti-Indian
pride was the reason for what most of the tribes faced crucial circumstances and most of them
had to sacrifice their lands and were deprived of all their valuables. My understanding of this
topic includes the fact that the Americans proved their dominance over everything through
captivation of lands along with their people. Americanization was the moment which started for
including all nearby lands in America and American culture was imposed on the people living on
those lands. Everything including even the culture if American-Indians was assimilated to prove
their dominance. The cultural diversity of once called land of spices ended. American Indians
were allotted lands for aggregation purpose but the lands were barren and were of no use.
Similarly, most of the facilities provided to them in the name of Americanization were mere
deceptions as nothing was worth their genuine notions of culture or of land. What I perceived
from this chapter from the book "Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class" by Joseph Healy is the
phenomenon of invasion of lands in the name of new land but not providing people with the
expected circumstances. Even then, American-Indians were not given proper rights instead were
sent to lands with incomplete resources and the pace set up them was being enjoyed by the
invaders. Though they sacrificed their lands and all their valuables still their identity was of
“un-American”. There were eminent differences among social and cultural values of the
Americans and American-Indians and this element put them at the clash with each other. The profit
was gained by America and America is still enjoying that profit.
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