Resources - Lanna Samaniego

 

Selected Resources for Lanna Samaniego

Challenging us with stunning images, Aaron Huey relates the fight for survival on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Aaron began photographing on Pine Ridge Reservation as part of a story on poverty in America, but it has captured his passion for five years. A quintessential example of the failures of the reservation system, he and we cannot turn away from what we see at Pine Ridge. Aaron Huey’s TED Talk You Tube video about Pine Ridge Reservation - : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv7n5jhrHGQ

Pine Ridge Reservation 2011 video - Artist K.P Devlin music video in the current living conditions for Native Americanss on the Pine Ridge Reservations located in South Dakota:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqhMAoOcYi8&feature=related

Library of Congress Memory Project’s link to Native American photos, stories, music: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/ListSome.php?category=Native%20American%20History 

List of websites available on the National Archives Website:http://search.archives.gov/query.html?col=1arch&col=social&qt=native+americans&charset=iso-8859-1&qc=1arch+social&image.x=35&image.y=12

2010 Census map of Native American in the US http://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/special/AIANWall2010/AIAN_US_2010.pdf

2010 Census data Native Americans:http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ACS_10_3YR_S0201&prodType=table

Sample Assignment - Lanna Samaniego

     

• Is Chief Wahoo a racist image? 
• Recent Census data reveals that Native American experience low levels of educational attainment, high levels of unemployment, low annual income levels etc. What factors are at work here?  How do these statistics square with the notion of “equality of opportunity” in the US? 
• Substance abuse is a major problem in the US, including among Native Americans. Note the following Congressional report:  In 2005, a federal report indicated that “surveys of past-year methamphetamine use have shown that Native American communities have more than double the methamphetamine use rate of other ethnicities. Additionally, over 70% of Indian tribes surveyed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs identified methamphetamine as the drug that posed the greatest threat to their reservation and also estimated that at least 40% of violent crime cases investigated in Indian Country involve methamphetamine in some capacity http://frewbgate.access.gov)(Accessed Nov. 18). How has the US approached this problem? Has cultural competency been a factor in our war on drugs?