AMST 0862 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Taiaiake Alfred

• School: Temple University
• Department: American Studies
• Course: AMST 0862
• Professor: Thomas Rees

Document Summary

19th and early 20th centuries to educate and assimilate indigenous youths into. Be assured you will support them better and with less labor, by raising stock and bread, and by spinning and weaving clothes, than by hunting. A little land cultivated, and a little labor, will procure more provisions than the most successful hunt; and woman will clothe more by spinning and weaving, than a man by hunting. Compared with you, we are but as of yesterday in this land. Yet see how much more we have multiplied by industry, and the exercise of that reason which you possess in common with us. Follow then our example, brethren, and we will aid you with great pleasure (cid:499) - president thomas jefferson, brothers of the choctaw nation, dec. 17, 1803: the results, loss of language, loss of tribal cohesion/family cohesion, loss of traditional lifeways (food gathering and preparation, loss of spiritual enrichment.