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Mgmt 3700: Chapter Three
Read the Chapter.
Power point Slide Exercises
1. Look at the following components below and use this to correct your chapter two cultural
knowledge test. State what questions you got wrong by the answers are found below:
a. What is the ethnicity of the richest person in the world of all time? Read the following to
find the answer and provide five facts about this individual. richest man ever to live
b. Now, state why it is important to know that White males have experienced discrimination
please incorporate parts of the story below in your response found at:
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-us-history/period-4/apush-politics-society-
early-19th-c/a/irish-and-german-immigration.
c. Countries of women who have had heads of states. Go to: female heads of states and
choose five provide three facts about each of the five.
d. State in a paragraph a summary of the “real” Plymouth thanksgiving story found at
https://www.manataka.org/page269.html (if this link is not working the story is at the end
of the assignment)
e. Choose five of the African American inventors (give their name and what they invented)
and state what this has to do with cultural knowledge found at http://african-
americaninventors.org/2018-AAI/a-z/
f. Watch Mexicans in America up to 3 minutes before the political viewpoint is provided.
Please provide a one paragraph summary of what was stated. Now think: did the refusal of
Mexico to participate in slavery (no pay to labor to work which created vast wealth for
white male landowners) have anything to do with Mexican immigrants still being targeted
today? You come to your own conclusion—please do not write your response. I am not
going to debate immigration policy. This is solely about the treatment of certain people in
this country and having a little cultural knowledge to understand “their” story.
2. Answer the two questions found on slide eight in one to two paragraphs.
3. Answer the question from slide nine.
4. What does it mean to be the following (On the course website, left menu) there is a power and
privilege definitions link please use it to define the words that follow:
a. Oppression
b. Privilege
c. Targets of Oppression
d. Agents of Oppression
e. Define the four terms above and state what the four terms above a-d have to do with
inclusion and power in the workplace.
f. How does a-d relate to our workplace identity?
The Real Story of Thanksgiving http://returntonow.net/2016/11/23/why-thanksgiving-is-a-national-
day-of-mourning-for-native-americans/
As told by the Manataka Indian Council:
The story began in 1614 when a band of English explorers sailed home to England with a ship full of
Patuxet Indians bound for slavery. They left behind smallpox which virtually wiped out those who
escaped. By the time the Pilgrims arrived in Massachusetts Bay they found only one living Patuxet
Indian, a man named Squanto who had survived slavery in England and knew their language. He taught
them to grow corn and to fish, and negotiated a peace treaty between the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag
Nation. At the end of their first year, the Pilgrims held a great feast honoring Squanto and the
Wampanoags.
But as word spread in England about the paradise in the new world, religious zealots called Puritans
began arriving by the boatload. Finding no fences around the land, they considered it public domain.
They seized land, capturing strong, young Natives for slaves and killing the rest. But the Pequot Nation
had not agreed to the peace treaty Squanto had negotiated and fought back. The Pequot War was one
of the bloodiest Indian wars ever fought.
In 1637, near present day Groton, Connecticut, over 700 men, women and children of the Pequot Tribe
had gathered for their annual Green Corn Festival … In the predawn hours the sleeping Indians were
surrounded by English and Dutch mercenaries who ordered them to come outside. Those who came out
were shot or clubbed to death while the terrified women and children who huddled inside the longhouse
were burned alive. The next day the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony declared “a day of
thanksgiving” because 700 unarmed men, women and children had been murdered.
Cheered by their “victory,” the brave colonists and their Indian allies attacked village after village.
Women and children over 14 were sold into slavery while the rest were murdered. Boats loaded with as
many as 500 slaves regularly left the ports of New England. Bounties were paid for Indian scalps to
encourage as many deaths as possible.
Following an especially successful raid against the Pequot in what is now Stanford, Connecticut, the
churches announced a second day of “thanksgiving.” During the feasting, the hacked off heads of
Natives were kicked through the streets like soccer balls. Even the friendly Wampanoag did not escape
the madness. Their chief was beheaded, and his head impaled on a pole in Plymouth, Massachusetts —
where it remained on display for 24 years.
The killings became more and more frenzied, with days of thanksgiving feasts being held after each
successful massacre. George Washington finally suggested that only one day of Thanksgiving per year be
set aside, instead of celebrating each and every massacre. Later Abraham Lincoln decreed Thanksgiving
Day to be a legal national holiday during the Civil War — on the same day he ordered troops to march
against the starving Sioux in Minnesota.
The long, slow genocide
The documentary below explains how the genocide of the Lakota (and Native Americans in general)
quietly continues long after the colonists wiped out the bulk of them with small pox and muskets:
By conservative estimates, there were at least 10 million Native Americans inhabiting what is now the
United States before European contact. By 1900, there were less than 300,000.
By the late 1800’s, it wasn’t as acceptable to just line “Indians” up and shoot them. Instead, they shot
the buffalo.
“The civilization of the Indians is impossible while the buffalo remain upon the plains,” said Columbus
Delano, U.S. Secretary of the Interior, in 1870.
From 1871 to 1910, the US Army supervised a mass slaughter of buffalo. In 1873 alone, buffalo hunters
massacred more than 1.5 million buffalo.
“As planned, our people became increasingly dependent on the government for even the most basic of
human needs – food, clothing and shelter,” says the documentary’s narrator.
In 1874, General Custer spread rumors that started a gold rush in the Black Hills of the Sioux
Reservation. When the Sioux refused to sell the Black Hills, the US Army started the Battle of Little Big
Horn, lost, and then went from village to village killing women, children and ponies. The government
forced the Lakota to sign over their land with a “sell or starve” campaign, cutting off food rations until
they gave in.
In the 1880s the US Government joined forces with Christian missionaries to steal Native children as
young as 2 years old from their families and ship them to boarding schools. They burned their clothes,
cut their hair, deprived them of family contact for years, and used mental and physical abuse to force
assimilation into American society.
In 1883, the US created the Code of Indian Offenses to criminalize indigenous culture and spiritual
practices such as the sun dance, the give-away, gifts for the bride, feasts and medicine men.
Punishments included fines, hard labor, imprisonment and withheld rations.
In 1887, Congress divided communal land of the Sioux Reservation into individual parcels of private
property. “Our people had no concept of individual ownership of our earth,” the narrator said.
“The Indian must be imbued with the exalting egotism of American civilization, so that he will say ‘I’
instead of ‘we’ and ‘this is mine’ instead of ‘this is ours.'” ~ John Oberly, US Commissioner of Indian
Affairs
In 1889, Congress sold 11 million acres of the Great Sioux Reservation including sacred sites and burial
grounds.
In 1890, the US government massacred 300 unarmed Indians at Wounded Knee.
In 1924, Native Americans were allowed to leave their reservations for the first time.
In the 1960s and 70s, US Indian Health Services physicians performed involuntary sterilizations on
thousands of full-blooded Lakota women.
In 1973, more than 60 Lakota activists were killed for trying to re-occupy the land at Wounded Knee.
A slow, silent genocide of the Lakota (and all indigenous Americans) continues today.
Malnutrition
A combination of the buffalo slaughter, ever-shrinking reservations on low-quality land and laws
requiring permits to forage for berries and other wild foods, has left the the Lakota and other tribes
almost entirely dependent on the government for food.
Corrupt local tribunals run by “half breeds” keep most of the money, leaving elders, women and
children without food. The food that is given to them is often rotten and is mostly starch.
The result is disease never before seen by the Lakota people. Heart disease and cancer are epidemic on
their Pine Ridge reservation, with rates up to 9 times higher than the national average.
Life expectancy at Pine Ridge is 44 for men and 52 for women, compared to the national average of 76
for men and 81 for women.
“Our bodies are attuned to protein, fruits and vegetables, but we are given carbohydrates and sugar,”
one elderly Lakota woman said in the film. “We’re not really who we are supposed to be.”
Environmental Destruction
There are more than 3000 abandoned open-pit uranium mines on Lakota land.
“All that radio-active dust – we’re breathing it in constantly,” the woman said. “It has gone down into
the ground water and the surface water – we drink it. The cattle, horses, all the animals, eat the grass.
We pick berries – all of those are covered with radio active dust … We have no clean drinking water at
all, none.”
By the mid 1970s there were 380 uranium leases on Native land and only four on public or acquired
land.
Of the 1300 toxic waste sites the EPA has labeled “Super Fund” sites in need of clean-up, 25 percent are
on Native American reservations, which comprise less than 2 percent of the land in the country.
Radioactive elements, heavy metals and toxic chemicals – like radium, uranium, lead, mercury and
arsenic – pass from mother to child during pregnancy and cause birth defects and miscarriages at a rate
6 times higher than the national average.
Assimilation
In addition to physical genocide, Native Americans have undergone cultural genocide.
Most of the surviving elders today were victims of the boarding school era, in which children were
punished for speaking their native language and practicing their customs.
“Native students were beaten, whipped, shaken, burned, thrown down stairs, placed in stress positions
and deprived of food. Their heads were smashed against walls and they were made to stand naked
before their classmates.” Stephanie Woodard writes in an article titled “South Dakota Boarding School
Survivors Detail Sexual Abuse.”
Today, the foster care system perpetuates assimilation through government-sanctioned kidnappings.
South Dakota removes 700 Lakota children from their homes every year. 90 percent are placed in non-
native homes or group-care where their culture is lost, while licensed Lakota foster homes sit empty.
Poverty
In Pine Ridge:
• 1/3 homes lack clean water
• 40 percent lack electricity
• 60 percent are substandard
• 89 percent live below the federal poverty line
• Every winter the elderly die of hypothermia from lack of heat
• Alcoholism affects 8 out of 10 families
• Lakota women are raped and assaulted at a rate 4 times the national average