Geed 162 - The Power of Language and Persuasion

1. The Semester Project
Topic : The USA should pay claim to the Indians
“White Man Came, Freedom Gone”
O71350 – Ümitcan TURHAN
Electrical & Electronic Engineering
GEED 162: The Power of Language and
Persuasion

3. Native Americans in the United States are
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the indigenous peoples from the regions of North
America now encompassed by thecontinental United
States, including parts of Alaska and the island state
of Hawaii. They comprise a large number of
distinct tribes, states, and ethnic groups, many of which
survive as intact political communities. There has been a
wide range of terms used to describe them and no
consensus has been reached among indigenous
members as to what they collectively prefer to be called.
Native Americans have also been known as American
Indians, Amerindians, Amerinds, First
Nations, Aboriginal
Americans, Indians, Indigenous, Original

4. American Indians lived life in love with nature. Their wisdom
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showed in everything - their capacity for harmony with the
environment, what they wore, what they created, what they ate
and how it was prepared, in their home life and importance of
family and in their philosophies and beliefs. It would be
impossible to tell the whole story of Native Americans, or even
one people within the whole. Not only because there is so much
to know, but because quot;historicalquot; information is often
incomplete, inaccurate or totally nonexistent. These offerings
provide a brief and basic look into a few of literally hundreds of
American Indian tribes and bands that existed in North America
before the arrival of European influence. The brief and basic looks
are intended to spark interest and serve as a jumping off point for
your pursuit of those people, traditions and beliefs which most
interest you.

6. 
For generation after generation, the American Indians who
inhabited the North American continent were different in many
ways, and the same in others. While not alike in
tradition, ceremony, language or lifestyle, they did seem to share
a reverence for the earth and all things in nature. Three centuries
ago, however, Europeans who arrived in the Americas saw things
differently. While American Indians sought to be part of the beauty
and wild around them, European cultures saw these same gifts
as things to conquer, tame and ultimately own. As Western
civilization reflects on the ways of the world, it has finally come to
a realization that perhaps the American Indian way of thinking
might have been the better path. For thousands of years Native
Americans maintained an ecological and social balance undone
in a fraction of the time. For many years their philosophies and
common sense beliefs were not heard because no one was
listening.

7. Native American tribes have lived and thrived upon the North
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American landscape for thousands of years—long before there
was a United States. Historically, there were 2000 Native clan and
about 500 distinct Native languages were spoken in North
America.
When the Europeans first came to North America in the 16th-
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and 17th-century, there were approximately ten million Indians
populating this country. It is believed that the first Native
Americans arrived during the last ice-age, approximately 20,000 -
30,000 years ago and that they came through a land-bridge
across the Bering Sound, from northeastern Siberia into Alaska .
The oldest documented Indian tribes or cultures in North America
are Sandia (15000 BC), Clovis (12000 BC) and Folsom (8000
BC) The name quot;Indianquot; was first applied by Christopher

8. When the Indians –the real owners of America- were living in a
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harmony and peace, some Europeans found gold on the north of
the Lacota lake. That was the starting of the Indians end. All new
founders tried to get all those golds and also many good areas
without any permission. They started to kill all Indians with some
inequable wars where their super-heroes -like Calamity Jane and
Wild Wild Hitchcoch- born from. In these wars all Europeans were
fighted with their technological guns against primary weapons.
One of the chef of Indians has a speech about situation; ―White
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man used his mother land and his brother sky with a bad way…
Land will give him desert. When the last tree of the world will be
cut, last water will be polluted, last fish will be hunted he will
understand that money is not eatable.‖

9. Europeans used so many heartless way to beat Indians. One of them was the
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biggest massacre in the world. There were 55 millions of buffalo in 19th century in
America but now there are just 5 thousands. Because at that time Europeans
thought like ―one buffalo means one Indian‖ and killed them all. And also one of them
was the first biological war. Europeans gave Indians old blankets -to say ―we are
helping them to all world‖ which were death soldiers who died because of
tuberculosis.
A chef says that; ―White man gave us so many promises but he made just
one of them. He was always saying us to take all of our lands from our
hands. Yes, he kept that promise.‖

10. In the late eighteenth century, reformers
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starting with Washington and
Knox, supported educating native
children, in efforts to quot;civilizequot; or otherwise
assimilate Native Americans to the larger
society (as opposed to relegating them
to reservations). The Civilization Fund Act of
1819 promoted this civilization policy by
providing funding to societies (mostly
religious) who worked on Native American
improvement.
Assimilatio
Photos dates from 1868 to 1924

11. The boarding school experience often proved traumatic to Native American
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children, who were forbidden to speak their native languages, taught Christianity and
denied the right to practice their native religions, and in numerous other ways forced
to abandon their Native American identities and adopt European-American culture.
There were documented cases of sexual, physical and mental abuse occurring at
these schools. Through the years, Indians became US
citizens by:
1. Treaty provision (as with the Mississippi
Choctaw)
2. Registration and land allotment under
the Dawes Act of February 8, 1887
3. Issuance of Patent in Fee Simple
4. Adopting Habits of Civilized Life
5. Minor Children
6. Citizenship by Birth
7. Becoming Soldiers and Sailors in the U.S.
Armed Forces
8. Marriage to a US citizen
9. Special Act of Congress.

12. Native Americans today
There are 562 federally recognized
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tribal governments in the United
States. These tribes possess the right
to form their own government, to
enforce laws (both civil and
criminal), to tax, to establish
requirements for membership, to
license and regulate activities, to zone
and to exclude persons from tribal
territories. Limitations on tribal powers
of self-government include the same
limitations applicable to states; for
example, neither tribes nor states
have the power to make war, engage
in foreign relations, or coin money (this

13. Indians presented a reverse image of European
“The
civilization which helped America establish a national
identity that was neither savage nor civilized.”—- Charles
Sanford, The Quest for Paradise
“Natural freedom is the only object of the policy of the
[Native Americans]; with this freedom do nature and
climate rule alone amongst them ... [Native Americans]
maintain their freedom and find abundant nourishment . . .
[and are] people who live without laws, without
police, without religion.”—- Jean Jacques Rousseau, Jesuit and
Savage in New France