FREQUENTLY
ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT THE LENAPE OR DELAWARE TRIBE.
This is a useful faq especially for those of you with little or no background
in Native American culture, tradition and history. It's part of the homepage
of the Delaware (Lenape) Nation, which has a number of other interesting links,
including stories, a map of post-contact migration, and audiofiles of the language.
Wotanging Ikche:
Native American News
A newsletter about current events in and around Native America.
The Indian Boarding
School System in the United States: "Let All That Is Indian Within You
Die"
A thorough history of the boarding school system, which uprooted Native
children and placed them in conditions many have likened to captivity. This
article covers the background, reasons for being, impact and failures of the
boarding school system.
Crimes Against
Humanity
Ward Churchill's argument against the use of Indian mascots for sporting teams.
(For those of you familiar with RHE 306, this is a good example of a definitional
argument, but it's still interesting to read!)
Native Tribes
of the U.S. and Canada
An index to an alphabetical listing of federally and state recognized tribes
in the U.S. and Canada, with information on how to contact each tribe.
First Nations
Histories
Brief sketches of the history of First Nations people, with a heavy focus on
the Northeast.
White privilege
Thoughts on what racism means to white people, written by UT professor Bob Jensen.
Philip Deloria's Playing Indian
Web pages summarizing each chapter of Deloria's book, which details the ways
in which whites in North America have "played Indian" by adopting
various kinds of supposedly Indian identities. (Remember the Boston Tea Party?
Ever wonder why they dressed up as Indians?)
Fall
2001, Spring
2002 Final Web Projects, RHE309K: Images of American Indians in Popular
Culture
Students were asked to write an autobiographical web page talking about their
views about Native Americans and how these had changed - or not changed as a
result of this course. Many of them didn't know much about Native Americans
at the beginning of the course, so these might be of interest to those of you
in the same boat.