Humanities Homework Help

an initial post responding to the prompt below, respond to at least 1 peer in 200 words minimum.

OZAR,

1. Hello my name is Oscar Jones and I am a senior studying financial services. I plan to graduate in the fall and continue my career at my commercial real estate firm i currently work at. I am an international student from Australia and transferred here from MiraCosta College. I moved here in 2018 and really love it. When I’m not working or in school i like to surf and go to the gym. I took this class as a upper div GE requirement and hope to learn more about the history of American Indians.

2. This talk relates to our subject matter and is the first thing we watch in this class because this class is based on American Indian history, a subject that is often not properly/truthfully discussed and truthfully in traditional American high school curriculum. What stood out to me was how when she was not exposed to African literature, she never thought possible that girls who looked like her could be written about in literature. She was only exposed to one story. Its not to say girls like her weren’t written about, its just they were harder to come by and written about less than European girls. we can look at this ted talk as a way of approaching American Indian history, we should look to how early American Indians wrote history, not just how white early Americans wrote it, we will be able to see things that once we thought weren’t there/ did not happen.

3. the controversies surrounding the bearing straight theory are that American Indians believe they originated in their homeland rather than what the bearing straight theory says. They believe they were always there and did not move from a foreign place. The current scientific perspectives on the bearing straight theory are that humans have inhabited north America for at least 100,000 years but there is still arguments about the methods of dating

4. The connections i make from both the BST articles and the TED Talk we watched is how history can be looked at from different views based on what sources or context you read them. Like the PowerPoint says, context is everything

5. I learned a lot about the Kumeyaay Indians. I have not much prior exposure to the history of San Diego as I am not from here but I learned that they were the first people to inhabit what we call San Diego County, they have been here from as far back as 10,000 years ago and their land was stripped off them by the US govt and the Spanish. I am excited to dig deeper into the history of the Kumeyaay as I now live on what was once their land and should respect it as such.