Posted on 05/27/2021 4:53:52 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - When Samantha Maltais steps onto Harvard’s campus this fall, she’ll become the first member of the Aquinnah Wampanoag tribe to attend its prestigious law school. It’s a “full-circle moment” for the university and the Martha’s Vineyard tribe, she says.
More than 350 years ago, Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck, an Aquinnah Wampanoag man, became the first Native American to graduate from the Cambridge, Massachusetts, university — the product of its 1650 charter calling for the education of “English and Indian youth of this country.”
“Coming from a tribal community in its backyard, I’m hyper aware of Harvard’s impact,” said Maltais, the 24-year-old daughter of her tribe’s chairwoman. “It’s a symbol of New England’s colonial past, this tool of assimilation that pushed Native Americans into the background in their own homelands.”
Maltais will arrive on campus at a time when Native American tribes, students and faculty are pushing the Ivy League institution and other colleges to do more for Indigenous communities to atone for past wrongs, much in the way states, municipalities and universities are weighing and, in some cases, already providing reparations for slavery and discrimination against Black people.
Many American universities are a product of the Morrill Act, a law signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1862 that funded the creation of public colleges through federal land sales. But an investigation by High Country News last year suggested nearly 11 million acres designated for so-called land grant colleges were actually taken from roughly 250 tribes.
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I was born in the Bronx....which makes me a Native American. 🎶HiHowAreYa...HiHowAreYa...HiHowAreYa...🎶
Every affirmative action admission causes a more qualified applicant to be rejected.
And this has what, exactly, to do with Harvard College?
Uh, where are they actually providing this?
“It’s a symbol of New England’s colonial past, this tool of assimilation that pushed Native Americans into the background in their own homelands.”
Here’s an idea...then don’t accept admittance to a college you despise. I had a native college roommate in Alaska. The native corporation gave him a free ride, but he spent all his time smoking dope and drinking. He lasted one semester.
From the Vinyard. There are lots of oppressed there.
They are only 1024th of a percent right.
Only shows that some people never learn, they go to HARRVAAD instead. Her ancient ancestors started there and only got indoctrination, now generations later she goes there to get indoctrination...
Stupid is as stupid does, no matter what color stupid is.
Lighten up. It was a joke. The whole of society is becoming one big friggin’ joke lately.
Yes, what an ingrate. She should give up her place and let someone who appreciates the privilege to go.
In grad school in Arizona I had a classmate of Indian descent. She was not qualified to be there but got a similar free ride so she took advantage of it. She called it “riding your feather.”
She called it “riding your feather.”
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I like her sense of humor.
I like it.
I worked for a large electronics company in Texas (ahem) and we were required once a year to review the 'employee data sheet' with each employee.
One year when reviewing one of my engineering technicians, Juan Rios, we called him Johnny (As American as anyone I knew) he told me he wanted to change his race from Mexican to Hispanic.
I said what? And why? He said that he thought the Hispanics got more benefits than Mexicans. I called the personnel manager and he said, "Bill, just write down on the sheet whatever he calls himself". I did. End of story.
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