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Anonymous from the stream asked,

“ How much violence did Native Americans have between tribes? ”

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Dispossession

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Comment on our last class:��The problem is that sam has been complexifying issues for 20 year olds for too long. Now he wants to do the same thing for Israel/Palestine? I don’t think so…

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“There are not just two sides”���“Power is nearly always asymmetrical”

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Case Study One:��Neutrality

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“Jewish lives over American comfort”

“Palestinian lives over American comfort”

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“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, then you have chosen the side of the oppressor”��~ Desmond Tutu

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Case Study Two:��Land

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Native Peoples in the U.S.���highest unemployment�lowest income�highest overall poverty�highest suicide

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Pine Ridge Reservation - 2020

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  • Unemployment Rate: 90 percent
  • High school dropout rate: 70 percent
  • Life Expectancy:
    • Women: 52 years
    • Men: 47 years
  • Alcoholism affects 80 percent of families
  • Population who are living below U.S. federal

poverty line: 97 percent

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Changes in poverty rates on largest reservations

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U.S. Pop:

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80%

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Case Study Three:��Being a “traitor”

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“Please consider this”