Dakota people should receive a vast amount of different kinds of reparations because of the trauma that they went through because of the white settlers in their history. Through the suffering and stripping of Dakota culture done by the white settlers and soldiers, history cannot be retrieved but things can still be done in order to create peace and a sense of forgiveness between the Dakota and Minnesota. History of the Dakota people is taught in schools but it is either incorrect information or there is not enough given to allow students to comprehend what they have learned and build questions based off of what they are taught. A reparation that allows more correct and detailed information about Dakota history to be included in all history
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When historians are writing and teaching the history of Minnesota they often skip over the many inconsiderate things that the state of Minnesota did to the Dakota people because they want to make it seem as if it is a state of quantity. Historians claim to always be truthful about what they are teaching, but when you really dig deep into the “facts” that they are telling you, you realize that it's just from one point of view and there is no real cultural experience from the Dakota in any of this writing. It’s all just what the world wants you to hear, not what is actually …show more content…
But is that really going to change anything? Is it going to make their religious practices and beliefs be respected? In all honesty i don't think it would make a huge difference to the enormous problems that surrounds these issues, the Dakota want to see respect for their tribe from the people that surround them and they want to see truth to the stories that are being told about them. “Reparations for Native Americans are little more than an attempt to extort guilt money from all American taxpayers and from corporations with deep pockets.” (EBSCO publishing) Dakota people don’t want to just continue to be given money by the state, they want something deeper with actual meaning rather than paper. Rewriting the history books may not be all that we can do but it is a start, the state of Minnesota should do everything they can to give the Dakota the things we never did, maybe then we could work towards a better
When historians are writing and teaching the history of Minnesota they often skip over the many inconsiderate things that the state of Minnesota did to the Dakota people because they want to make it seem as if it is a state of quantity. Historians claim to always be truthful about what they are teaching, but when you really dig deep into the “facts” that they are telling you, you realize that it's just from one point of view and there is no real cultural experience from the Dakota in any of this writing. It’s all just what the world wants you to hear, not what is actually …show more content…
But is that really going to change anything? Is it going to make their religious practices and beliefs be respected? In all honesty i don't think it would make a huge difference to the enormous problems that surrounds these issues, the Dakota want to see respect for their tribe from the people that surround them and they want to see truth to the stories that are being told about them. “Reparations for Native Americans are little more than an attempt to extort guilt money from all American taxpayers and from corporations with deep pockets.” (EBSCO publishing) Dakota people don’t want to just continue to be given money by the state, they want something deeper with actual meaning rather than paper. Rewriting the history books may not be all that we can do but it is a start, the state of Minnesota should do everything they can to give the Dakota the things we never did, maybe then we could work towards a better