SOC 2390 Lecture : land seizure

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2390
• Professor: Michael A Dixon

Document Summary

The pattern of land seizure, subjugation, assimilation, and resistance to domination has been repeated with indigenous peoples in nations throughout the world. The label reflects the initial explorers" confusion in believing that they had arrived in the indies of the asian continent. The term indian and most other names of major native american groups are terms of convenience applied by white americans. In most history books, not one of the major native american groups is recorded under its own name. Navaho call themselves dine, meaning the people. the renaming of native americans by outsiders is a result of their subordination and suggests one major difference between colonized groups and. In 2000, there were an additional 1. 6 million people who identified themselves as belonging to two or more races that included american indian. The states with the largest native american populations are california, oklahoma, and arizona.