Indigenous peoples of the Americas

with many different ethnicities, in present day and throughout history African Americans are the main target in North America. The history of slavery started the idea of racial profiling, because of slavery people with dark skin tones have been undermined and oppressed by those with light skin tones, who are considered to be superior. Though slavery no longer exists in North America, African Americans are not treated as equals and surrounded by stereotypes therefore are usually the ones who are the

Within twenty years, nearly the entire African continent was possessed by European powers. As they stole, killed and destroyed to get a hold of more than their neighbors back home, these powers gave little thought and consideration to the varieties of peoples who already inhabited the land. It was truly a mad grab for more and more land. Among the powers grabbing for land, the British came out on top possessing most of the South, East and significant areas in the North, but there was an unusual player

I. What is in a name : resource. By necessity, since capitalism functions using markets, surplus is needed in order to for the model to function. Therefore, resource extraction is an inherent part of the process, whether it is in the form of agriculture, ground resources, animal husbandry, water extraction etc. In the minds of European colonists, excessive resource extraction was seen as a logical, desirable endeavour, as though it were the reason of existence of those resources. “Europeans came

has its own indigenous people called the Na’ vi and depicts many references to the indigenous people of North America and the Canadian oil sands full of bitumen. After watching the film, it is easy to see how the First Nations of Canada and the Na’vi have more similarities than differences in terms of bitumen extraction. Both groups worry about whether their ways of life will change because of extraction, or if any conflict will arise during the process itself, however only the Indigenous are more concerned

First contact between the Indigenous Americans and Europeans is perhaps one of the most impactful points in Native American history, setting an important precedent for the power dynamic during the next century. This initial contact between the two contrasting groups is one that can be described with words of awe, great ignorance, and perhaps unfortunate circumstances as it would be the precursor to the eventual exploitation of the American Indigenous people. Although there are few sources of Native

physical and verbal assaults toward that race. The origins of colonial america was primarily the result of white European racism.     In colonial america, Racism had played a big part in the enslavement of Africans. We see this when Europeans first came to America, believing they were a superior race due to their advancement in technology and being more civilized than the indigenous people and Africans. As a result, Both, the indigenous, and Africans were titled as “savages, barbaric and uncivilized” and

excludes identities as a way to impose white supremacy. The exclusion of people is linked to policies that are anti-indigenous and highlights the irony of American domination, which pushes people out of their homeland and restricts access to migration. Organizing against these borders and structures of power becomes complex considering communities are torn apart and positioned into oppressive realities. However, indigenous resistance to the dominant forms of power lies within their ability to mold

Why do governments participate in ethnocide and how can removing one’s cultural identity harm society as a whole? The use of subjugation as a first world government says that peace is not fully possible within that society. Institutionalized racism in Canada has been a hot topic recently due to the presence and organized events of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, raising awareness for the 150,000 aboriginal Canadians who were forced into enrolling in “residential schools” that removed

Liberación Nacional (EZLN) is a current revolutionary group that resides in Chiapas, Mexico. Chiapas is state with a large majority of the population that has indigenous blood. With that being said they are very connected to their indigenous roots compared to other countries. With the start of the Mexican Revolution there were many people living in poverty and without land. Large amounts of wealthy Mexicans were owners of the grand majority of the land. A main problem that many believed that was

the first nine of twenty-one Spanish missions in California from San Diego to San Francisco, in what was then Alta California in the Province of Las Californias, New Spain. The Spanish missions themselves were used by the Spanish to convert the indigenous tribes