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This 5 page paper discusses two internal "migrations" in American history: the "Great Migration" to Chicago after World War I, and the government-forced assimilation of the Anishinaabe on the White Earth Reservation. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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history. Some were voluntary, like the movement of blacks north after the Civil War; some were not, such as the "Trail of Tears" walked by the Cherokee as they were
forcibly relocated by the government. This paper discusses two of these internal "migrations": the "Great Migration" to Chicago after World War I, and the government-forced assimilation of the Anishinaabe on
the White Earth Reservation. Discussion The White Earth Reservation is home to the Anishinaabe, more commonly known to whites as the Ojibwa or Chippewa. In the late 19th and early
20th centuries, driven by misguided government policies, the tribe became factionalized and the entire nation transformed into something unrecognizable (Faragher, 2004). The tragedy was the result of federal efforts to
"transform the Indian into an independent, profit-minded farmer" by obliterating the distinct cultures of the Native American tribes (Cave, 1998). Melissa Meyers explores the plight of the Anishinaabe in her
book White earth tragedy and Cave quotes her directly in the sentence above. Using quotation marks around the word "Indian" shows her contempt for it; as is well known, the
word isnt found in the native languages. Native Americans refer to themselves as Apache or Navajo or Cheyenne or Iroquois or whatever the name of their tribe is in their
own language. "Indian" is the name Christopher Columbus gave to the natives he met when he came to the New World, believing he was in India. By putting the word
in quotation marks, Meyer drives home the point that whites dont understand Native American cultures at all; and tend to lump all native peoples together into an amorphous mass they
call "Indians." Nothing could be further from the truth, and the white lack of respect for the Native Americans way of life led to policies that were bound to destroy
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