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History & Demography of Native North America

History & Demography of Native North America. OS215 Contemporary Native American Issues Thursday, January 12, 2012. Historical Context. About 15 million Native Americans pre-contact (estimated 12 million within present-day U.S.) Spanish exploration and European colonization

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History & Demography of Native North America

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  1. History & Demography of Native North America • OS215 Contemporary Native American Issues • Thursday, January 12, 2012

  2. Historical Context • About 15 million Native Americans pre-contact (estimated 12 million within present-day U.S.) • Spanish exploration and European colonization • Discovery Doctrine

  3. Historical Context • Population decline

  4. Historical Context • Destruction of tribal life ways

  5. Historical Context • Forced relocation (“Trail of Tears”)

  6. Historical Context • Extermination (“Wounded Knee”)

  7. Historical Context • Assimilation

  8. Affects on Contemporary Native Life • Look at contemporary Native American experience and issues through a lens of over 500 years of Western colonial intrusion and accelerated change • Conflicting concepts of territory, political power and community organization • Cultural interrelations, religious conversion, language loss, western values and concepts

  9. Survival and Re-awakening • Many Native American communities are seeking to retain cultures and communities despite colonization • Borrowing Western ideas and concepts • Reclaiming traditional concepts • Change and negotiation

  10. U.S. Census Data (2000) • National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) Policy Resource Center: • http://www.ncaiprc.org/census-information-center • 4.5 million people (1.5% of U.S. population) reported American Indian or Alaska Native ethnicity. • 71% (compared to 80% of total U.S. population) had at least a high school education. • 2/3 (66%) of Native Americans live in Urban areas (not represented within NCAI, will explore more next week with Identity, • About 700,000 (of 1.7 million) live on or near Indian Reservations

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