Essay on Colonialism

Essay on Colonialism

Instructions
Write a summarized paragraph for each of the following:

1) Write a summarized paragraph for Cowboys and Indians: Toys of Genocide,
Icons of Colonialism. I have attached the article below. Please make sure to cite correctly.

2) Write another summarized paragraph for the Youtube video, Why It’s Time To Give
Native Americans Their Land Back

On the last paragraph write a personal reflection on your thoughts on both the article and
The video and how they relate.

Please cite the sources
I have attached the article as well.

Excerpt

Colonialism is the act of one group invading, subjugating, and occupying another. Robert J. C. Young contends in Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction (2001) that the United States of America, the world’s last big colonial power, maintains to rule exterior areas even without agreement of indigenous peoples. Yet, one does not need to go overseas to evaluate American colonialism, since the oppression and domination of Native Peoples continues uninterrupted in the United States. This article discusses cowboys and Indians as symbols of white power and Indigenous inadequacy in the imperial can It began by describing how the character’s experience with a package of toy cowboys and Indians reminded him of the everyday degradation Indigenous Peoples endure at the hands of American colonization. He next tells how a master cowboys and Indians story was used to justify and sustain people’s subjugation in the tribal community where I was reared. I conclude with a consideration of the critical nature of decolonization cowboys and Indians.

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