Who is an American Indian? Who Decides?

American Indians

Introduction

American Indians is a term that is used to refer to people whose have Indian roots but are American citizen or live in America . This citizenship is a result of early migrations of people from their mother land in search of greener fields in the United States . However , these people were not appreciated by indigenous Americans in the 18th century since they were seen be inferior compared to indigenous Americans

Short essay 1

The long term study by social cultural anthropologist can be the most effective in

deciding someone 's culture . This is because a long term study would address changes that occur in long period of time in a society . Cultures do change with time and so along time study could be used in solving this . This experience that is gotten in the field makes the anthropologists come into direct contact with the issues in the society and this makes them write exactly what is on the since they experience it themselves . It 's worthy noting that this approach is Historians and journalists do not get into that direct contact with the society and so they do not get the real idea like the anthropologists Journalist 's historians do not spend much time studying the cultures of a particular society and in most cases they study or rely on the findings of other people

Short essay 2

According to Horseman the new racial ideology of the 19th century are racial ideologies that are supported by the principles of free democratic republicanism other than innate superiority of the American Anglo-Saxon group of people who were of Caucasian race . The previous ideologies placed American Anglo-Saxons a class above other races and they believed that they were destined to bring good governance commercial prosperity as well as Christianity to America and to the world at large . This meant that the other races were inferior and they were reduced to a subordinate status failure to which they were faced with a possibility of racial extinction . This new racial ideology was very different from the earlier Euro-American view of Indians Previously , both American and Europeans took some races to be superior to others for different reasons . These reasons included biblical theories and they followed these theories despite their inconsistencies and their contradictions since they believed that they had a special continental and world mission to accomplish as a race . Both Americans and Europeans both shared a belief in the political and individual freedoms as well as a need for uniqueness in language and racial origins unlike the new racial ideology which advocated for free democratic republicanism . In the 19th and 20th century , these views towards American Indians did not change either since they were subject to enslavement . At this time , many social scientists thought that native people were inferior to the Native Americans and so were subject to them and they went ahead to provide the much needed scientific proof for racial distinctions

During this time also , many government officials...