CLUSTER 20A Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Transcontinental Railroad, Golden Spike, Self-Determination
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War and militarization 1492 - 1860 expensive and post civil war did not have funds to keep funding. Reservation era - 1860 -- herding and containment on small parcels, often with better farm land going to whites rather than native peoples. Assimilation era - 1879 - 1930- forcible citizenship, through education, changing gender norms, tribal destruction, and loss of land base. Self determination- 19302 although not put into law until 1970s. They have come to be called home but theyre not set up to be like that, theyre set up to be carcel places, colonial construction. However, the reservation is a colonial construct, that people have made home. Post civil war -- economic means to get out of debt. Reconsolidation of whiteness // unstable demands of purity. Denied labor and indifference to where the land is coming from and. Land bases established between the king of england and pamunkey in 1658.
