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Anthropologists and Other Friends

2nd Major Argument

Conclusion

In Washington, bureaucrats are outraged to discover that this "berry-picking food gatherer" has not entered the mainstream of American society.

Deloria: Believes not only Anthropologists have influenced Indian people incorrectly but the government and bureaucrats have an agenda as well.

Deloria ultimately blames anthropologists and American government for the lack of "real Indianism" and successful Indian communities.

Should anthropologists pay the tribes to conduct research?

Should anthropologists go into the field with the intent to apply knowledge? Or just gain knowledge?

Do you feel like you know YOUR own culture well enough?

What is your culture identity?

No Financial Support

No property rights

Have to conform

Question for Discussion

"Programs begin to shift their ideological orientation to cover the missing aspect which allowed the berry picker to "flourish" pg82

"The government allowed white farmers to come into the eastern part of the reservation and create a country, with the best farm lands owned or operated by whites" pg 90

"The very real and human problems of the reservation were considered to be merely by-products of the failure of a warrior people to become domesticated. The fairly respectable thesis of past exploits in war, perhaps romanticized for morale purposes, became a demonic spiritual force all its own." pg91

Why would the government

take interests in domesticating

Indians and

reshaping their culture?

Reasons for being Wrong

Deloria depiction of the Anthropologist Process of a study

Slogan

Conference theme

Anthropologist

Secretary

Who is the real culprit?

1st Major Argument

Applied Research vs Pure Research

What will be his solution to fix this?

  • Since he believes that anthropologist eliminates the identity of Indians generation after generation his solution will be.....
  • All Indians stop communicating with anthropologists
  • Write and teach their own identity/culture
  • Is there a realistic solution??????

"The massive volume of useless knowledge produced by anthropologists attempting to capture real Indians in a network of theories has contributed substantially to the invisibility of Indian people today" pg 81

Reasons for being Right

  • Blames younger generation for "intellectual stagnation" in creative thought unlike young black students who served as the trigger to the Civil Rights Movement.
  • Scholarly Community holding workshops on reservations, government schools, Bureau of Indian Affairs.
  • The Apache Tribes of the Southwest

Question To Consider: Is he right or wrong?

If so what evidence suggest either?

What Vine Says

"There is little sense of lost identity. Tribal Identity is assumed, not defined, by the reservation people. They don't worry about what type of Indianism is real. Above all, they cannot be ego-fed by abstract theories and hence unwittingly manipulated.

Vine Deloria Jr.

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