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Film, Video Breaking the Bonds of People and Land: Native American Removal in the United States and Mexico

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Title

  • Breaking the Bonds of People and Land: Native American Removal in the United States and Mexico

Summary

  • Kluge Fellow Claudia Haake presented a lecture titled "Breaking the Bonds of People and Land: Native American Removal in the United States and Mexico." The lecture drew some general conclusions from an investigation of two cases of Native American forced migration: the Delawares in the United States and the Yaquis in Mexico. Although the basic intention behind the removal policies was the same in both countries, the ways in which they were carried out were oftentimes different. In both the Delawares and Yaquis examples, greed and land hunger on the part of the U.S. and Mexican governments appears to have been the main reasons for the forced migration of these indigenous people. Yet, variations in method, circumstances, and legality occasionally disguised the reality. While the Delaware tribe was/is a so-called domestic dependent nation and the Yaquis were at least nominally Mexican citizens, both removal policies are illustrative of colonialism in action--indigenous peoples were forced from their proprietary homelands. Clearly, the rise of the nation-state as well as periodic nation building or re-building in both countries was instrumental in bringing about the removal. Both Mexico and the United States were advancing technologically, and improvement in communications and transport contributed to the successful removal of these two tribes in a number of different ways. However, a closer look at the two cases in question suggests an increasing awareness on the part of both the U.S. and Mexican governments was the determining factor in bringing about the forced migrations.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • John W. Kluge Center (Library of Congress), sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2008-06-12.

Headings

  • -  Biography, History
  • -  Government, World Affairs
  • -  Government, Law
  • -  Immigration, American Expansion
  • -  Native American History

Notes

  • -  Classification: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation.
  • -  Classification: History: America.
  • -  Classification: Political Science.
  • -  Claudia Haake.
  • -  Recorded on 2008-06-12.
  • -  Researchers.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021687972

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body John W. Kluge Center. Breaking the Bonds of People and Land: Native American Removal in the United States and Mexico. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -06-12, 2008. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021687972/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & John W. Kluge Center, S. B. (2008) Breaking the Bonds of People and Land: Native American Removal in the United States and Mexico. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -06-12. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021687972/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body John W. Kluge Center. Breaking the Bonds of People and Land: Native American Removal in the United States and Mexico. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -06-12, 2008. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021687972/>.