My Paper Proposal

 

 

At first, I was hesitant to start a research topic about Native Americans, but I started to think about my hesitation as something else. Maybe my hesitation was some form on soft-core racism? Maybe I was subconsciously taught at a young age to be a little racist towards different races including Native Americans? With that in mind, I was interested in racism and decided to write my research paper on the evolution of racism towards Native Americans.  I decided it would be easier to write about Native Americans as a whole because I would find tons of information, and I decided to do racism all the way back to the first Thanksgiving in 1621. I wanted to hit on the racism during Civil War time because we never hear of them during that war. I also wanted to bring the racism through all of the other major wars because I know they had some participation. I wanted to use the act of bioterrorism, or when they used small pox blankets, to help my objective as well.

 The term “Indian” versus “Native American” is a very interesting concept because we were taught as children that Indian was a very bad term, and yet, the Native People want that label back.  I also wanted to use mascots and children’s books to write about all the stereotypes and how culture perceives the Native People. One asset of the racism I wanted to tackle is how the racism can be reversed. I think I would only touch on it in my conclusion and in a very small way.