1.     Discuss how laws to remove Native Americans from their lands, separate children from their families, strip people of their cultures and languages, and create a system of indentured servitude parallels the same atrocities experienced by Black Americans since “involuntary arrival” and enslavement on the first slave ship in 1619 and how vestiges of a racial caste system manifests in a contemporary setting.   Provide examples to support your contentions in the discussion.

A historical objective fact rarely discussed is William T. Sherman’s Special Field Order No. 15., issued on Jan. 16, 1865.    Historical  accounts leave out the fact that this idea for massive land redistribution actually was the result of a discussion that Sherman and  Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton held four days before Sherman issued the Order, with 20 leaders of the Black community in  Savannah, Georgia.  The meeting was unprecedented in American history.  The land was distributed to the newly freed Blacks and after the federal troops withdrew from the war-torn South, the Order was unilaterally rescinded resulting in massive takings of land from the Black owners.   Discuss if the “only compensation for land is land” as opined in the article and how this would ( or should it?)  apply to the massive takings of land without compensation from Blacks in America after Field Order No. 15 was rescinded.
 

Discuss whether you agree that a fix for the education would be to “to tell the truth of the nature of the “genocidal legacy and glossing  over history” , and founders should be accurately depicted in a truthful candid manner as discussed in the article.  (keeping in mind it  would be necessary to discuss the fact that Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings (as a child) was engaged in a “relationship”, and countless others,  that would equate to child sexual abuse by contemporary standards).  Discuss if you believe America collectively is prepared to have  this history revealed in an open honest way in school curriculum?
 

The article highlights the effects of intergenerational trauma and the disproportionality of incarcerated Native Americans in the criminal justice system. Discuss whether you believe there is an analogy to be made between the plight of Americans Native and Black and if a “truth in healing counsel” could be instrumental to begin the process of racial healing in this country.