SUNY First Peoples Summer 2 2017

This video is of a speech delivered about indigenous people and the many challenges that they face in the 21st century.  I think the video is powerful as well as informative Wilma Mankiller worked for many years as a leading advocate for the Cherokee people,  Mankiller was born in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, on November 18, 1945. Four decades later, in 1985, Mankiller became the first female principal chief of the Cherokee Nation. She sought to improve the nation’s health care, education system and government. She decided not to seek re-election in 1995 due to ill health. After leaving office, Mankiller remained an activist for Native-American and women's rights Mankiller shared her experiences as a pioneer in tribal government in her 1993 autobiography, Mankiller: A Chief and Her People . She also wrote and compiled Every Day Is a Good Day: Reflections by Contemporary Indigenous Women (2004), featuring a foreword by leading feminist Gloria Steinem. For her leadership and activism...

Wilma Mankiller was the first woman to become chief of the Cherokee Nation. She was chief from 1985 to 1995 (wiki). As I researched this inspirational woman, I realized that she had many great accomplishments. Wilma spent 3 terms as chief and in that time she developed projects for men and women to work together for the “common good,” in which they developed tribally owned businesses, improving infrastructure and building a hydroelectric facility. She also improved the relationship between the Cherokee Nation and the United States. This improved government to government negotiations (wiki). Wilma also helped fund the Cherokee Nation Community Development Department, revived Sequoyah High School, and won several awards including the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 1993 Mankiller was elected in the National Women’s Hall of Fame (wiki). In October of 2008, Wilma participated in a lecture on Indigenous land, culture, and community at the Heard Museum in Arizona. Wilma spoke of the c...

M5 Wilma Mankiller, “Challenges Facing the 21 st Century Indigenous Peoples.” What source did you review and who created it? What perspective do you think it is meant to convey?  The source that I reviewed for this blog was located in assigned video located in the M5 Overview, ASU libraries.   It featured Wilma Mankiller, in the year 2008 at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona.    It conveyed a perspective was that of an educated women who was trying to share as much information as possible in regards to the Native American peoples present and past culture.   In the documentary Wilima Mankiller shared an abundance of knowledge about indigenous tribes throughout America.   Why do you think these web resources where selected and put into this course and not others? What makes a quality academic website and do you think the website you reviewed is one?  The source where selected and put into this course due to Wilma Mankillers involve...

In this module I reviewed a speech given by Wilma Mankiller at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona in 2008. Mankiller served as the first female chief for the Cherokee Nation until her health forced her to step down in 1995. Since then, Mankiller remained a spokesperson and activist for indigenous peoples and women’s rights. (“Wilma Mankiller”). In her speech, Mankiller talks about interconnectedness and the continuity of different indigenous communities. She mentions that there are numerous different indigenous peoples scattered throughout the world, with many differences between them, but also much common ground. She also comments that the work of indigenous community activists does not “happen in a vacuum” (Librarychannel). I think that this theme of pan-humanity is a powerful one and universally relatable. This then, is the struggle that indigenous people face in the current century. It’s the struggle for recognition of our shared humanity. Wilma Mankiller’s speech is defin...

“What source did you review and who created it   (M5 Academic Journal Blog Academic Journal Blog Goals (Briefly Revisited)) ?  The source that was reviewed for this modules blog assignment was the required video featuring Wilma Mankiller lecturing at the Heard Museum that could be found in the module 5 section of the course entitled: “M5 Overview”  (ASU Libraries)  (M5 Academic Journal Blog Academic Journal Blog Goals (Briefly Revisited))  (M5 Overview) . “What perspective do you think it is meant to convey?   (M5 Academic Journal Blog Academic Journal Blog Goals (Briefly Revisited)) ”  When thinking about the “perspective” that Mrs. Mankiller was trying to bring threw with her lecture at the Heard museum that evening seemed to be of an informative, educational, and inspiring perspective. Not only was Mrs. Mankiller speaking as female Native American, former Chief, and scholar but she was speaking as a human being that has a great breadth and...

     The speech “Challenges Facing the 21 st Century Indigenous Peoples” was the focus of Wilma Mankiller's views, thoughts, research and perception of what is required for the Indigenous Peoples to succeed in the 21 st century.  Her thesis of the speech centered around the process of “ acknowledge the past injustices but don’t let that paralyze you through anger ” (Mankiller) for the success of the Indigenous peoples rely on the preservation of culture and knowledge of every tribe, while creating a model to pass on the culture to the future generations.  The future of the Indigenous peoples must be dependent on Tribal Identity.  The Indigenous Peoples must never give up on the sense of dependency of each other and of the land.  There must be a continuation of cultural practices, ceremonies and languages along with a diversity of each tribes cultural understanding for the common ground of mother earth.  She further stated that “ Indigenous peop...

As I was thinking about the course and the ways that companies have profited from the images of Indians in the past. In doing so I am reminded that the Tootsie Company ran and continues to run a design on what is approximated to appear on 30 percent of the overall wrappers send out that are used to wrap the famous lollipop. That image is the image of a Native American male in a full headdress shooting an arrow at a star on the wrapper of the famous lollipop maker’s product  (Mikkelson) . According to the website entitled “ Snopes   “ it mentioned that there have been many urban legends over the years as to the significance of finding the icon depicted above on the wrapper in some cases it was thought that you would win free lollipops if you got a wrapper with the above mentioned image on it. However this according to the site entitled “Snopes”   is proven to be a false idea and mealy just one of many other urban legends surrounding the wrapper.  Howeve...

Wilma Mankiller, the first woman elected to serve as Chief of the Cherokee nation, is a community activist that champions the cause of the Indigenous people.  In the video, Challenges Facing 21 st Century Indigenous People, Wilma explains that there are over 20 tribal governments in Arizona alone and that these tribal governments cooperate with local governments and businesses on a variety of issues such as health, education, environmental, infrastructure, and other issues.  These tribal governments do not conduct their work in a vacuum but they partner with non-native governments to build infrastructure projects, housing, and other programs.  She speaks of the how the Indigenous people are as familiar with the land, rivers, and seas as they are with their own mothers; that they have deep beliefs of the interdependence of all living things which leads to the Indigenous people leading the charge to protect Mother Earth and all living things on it as it is Mother Earth wh...

“What source did you review and who created it? What perspective do you think it is meant to convey? Provide at least one specific example and citation from the M3 Online Resources to support your opinions”   (M3 Academic Journal Blog Academic Journal Blog Goals (Briefly Revisited)) . The source for my blog assignment was found in the webpage of the course entitled: “M3 Online Resources” and it was the link on that page entitled: “American Indian Film Institute”  ( SUNY Empire State College) . The institute was created in 1975 and was originally located in Seattle Washing on and then the Institute relocated to San Francisco in 1977 and the institute is still located in San Francisco today (American Indian Film Institute) . According to the AIFI on their website  webpage entitled: “What We Do” the “perspective” that the institute is trying to purvey is a non-biased Native American “perspective” by giving  young Native Americans ages 10-18 a platform that al...

Jim Pritt Professor Nesberg First Peoples of North America 14 August 2017 For this blog assignment I decided to look at the link on the online resources for module 2 entitled: “Culture-Based Online Resources “and we will attempt to answer the questions based on the webpage entitled: “National Museum of the Native American Indian“and answer the following questions listed below that can be found on the webpage entitled: “Culture-Based Online Resources”. Those questions will be: (Culture-Based Online Resources) (Explore) . “What source did you review and who created it? What perspective do you think it is meant to convey? Provide at least one specific example and citation from the M2 Online Resources to support your opinions”   (Culture-Based Online Resources) . As mentioned above the source that was examined from the list on the webpage entitled: “ Culture-Based Online Resources” was the source entitled “National Museum of the Native American”  (Explore) ...