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HIS 100 Module Three Activity Template: Revising Questions
Replace the bracketed text below with your responses.
Identify the topic you chose to explore:
I am wanting to explore the social standings of Native Americans within the American
nation. How their society has changed and evolved. I want to explore if the Native
American’s are finally seen as their own nation, or if they are still treated as an extension
of America and not their own nation.
Identify a historical perspective that could be applied to your historical event.
I will be taking on a social perspective. When reading my secondary source D’Arcus used
a quote that really brought me to my question. “
The eyes and the ears of the whole
universe are now focused on Wounded Knee. And little Wounded Knee turned into a
giant world. Wallace Black Elk, Lakota Medicine Man (in
Anderson et al., 1974
: 110).”
D’Arcus shared in his article,
Contested Boundaries: native sovereignty and state power
at Wounded Knee, 1973.
This shows that the Natives considered when, where, and how
to bring light to their issues. They took time into planning to bring as much attention to
their social issues, injustices, and broken treaties so that it could hopefully have the
biggest impact for them.
He continues to solidify my thoughts by stating “
a virtual army
of both domestic and international television and print reporters also surrounded the site.”
The Native Americans took this into consideration when planning this event and knew
exactly how to get the best outcome possible. Through a few errors in previous attempts,
they learned how society in America depended on news and used that to make it work for
themselves.
Revise your research question based on evidence from your primary and secondary sources.
Why have the Native Americans rights still have not improved substantially since the
Wounded Knee Occupation?
Have events like the Wounded Knee Occupation made a strong enough social change for
the Indigenous people of America to be seen as their own nation?
Explain how historical perspective and evidence from sources influenced your finalized research
question.
By reading a few sources I was able to see that the main quest of Native American’s was
to bring injustice to light. They wanted to show the world that they were still not being
treated fairly by America. When America was fighting for the rights of people in other
countries like Vietnam. They were still allowing injustices to pass here in the Americas
against its own people. The historical context, though hard for me at first, when I finally
realized what I was needing to look up, helped me realize why this event took place when
it did. It also helped to show me that the Native American’s didn’t just finally get mad
enough to protest, but there was a timing to it, a process to their madness so to say. They
wanted more coverage so more people would know about what was going on. I read a
source with a political prospective and it helped me realize they were trying to address
their political agenda in a way that would get the biggest reaction. Which in turn would
help create a bigger change. By looking though different perspectives it allows us to look
at an event in different lights to see why, when, who, what, where events take place.
Beyond that it gives us the background for those questions. Beyond whom, it shows us
why the who did what they did. Beyond the why it helps us understand the events that
lead up to it.
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