Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • 830 views

    The Canary Effect

    Uploaded by

    Curie
    The documentary "The Canary Effect" reveals the brutality Native Americans faced during the colonization of America. The Europeans who settled in America demeaned and oppressed the indigenous people. They grabbed Native American lands, sterilized their women, and isolated their children to assimilate them into European culture. The Europeans also held prejudices that led to discrimination against Native Americans. They viewed Native Americans as lazy, alcoholic, and part of gangs. This racial discrimination was a way for settlers to eliminate Native Americans and take their land. After watching the documentary, viewers can appreciate the overwhelming circumstances Native Americans endured and the need for improved living conditions and education for Native Americans today.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    The Canary Effect

    Uploaded by

    Curie
    830 views4 pages
    The documentary "The Canary Effect" reveals the brutality Native Americans faced during the colonization of America. The Europeans who settled in America demeaned and oppressed the indigenous people. They grabbed Native American lands, sterilized their women, and isolated their children to assimilate them into European culture. The Europeans also held prejudices that led to discrimination against Native Americans. They viewed Native Americans as lazy, alcoholic, and part of gangs. This racial discrimination was a way for settlers to eliminate Native Americans and take their land. After watching the documentary, viewers can appreciate the overwhelming circumstances Native Americans endured and the need for improved living conditions and education for Native Americans today.

    Original Title

    The Canary Effect.docx

    Copyright

    © © All Rights Reserved

    Available Formats

    DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    The documentary "The Canary Effect" reveals the brutality Native Americans faced during the colonization of America. The Europeans who settled in America demeaned and oppressed the indigenous people. They grabbed Native American lands, sterilized their women, and isolated their children to assimilate them into European culture. The Europeans also held prejudices that led to discrimination against Native Americans. They viewed Native Americans as lazy, alcoholic, and part of gangs. This racial discrimination was a way for settlers to eliminate Native Americans and take their land. After watching the documentary, viewers can appreciate the overwhelming circumstances Native Americans endured and the need for improved living conditions and education for Native Americans today.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as docx, pdf, or txt
    830 views4 pages

    The Canary Effect

    Uploaded by

    Curie
    The documentary "The Canary Effect" reveals the brutality Native Americans faced during the colonization of America. The Europeans who settled in America demeaned and oppressed the indigenous people. They grabbed Native American lands, sterilized their women, and isolated their children to assimilate them into European culture. The Europeans also held prejudices that led to discrimination against Native Americans. They viewed Native Americans as lazy, alcoholic, and part of gangs. This racial discrimination was a way for settlers to eliminate Native Americans and take their land. After watching the documentary, viewers can appreciate the overwhelming circumstances Native Americans endured and the need for improved living conditions and education for Native Americans today.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as docx, pdf, or txt
    of 4
    At a glance
    Powered by AI
    The documentary reveals the brutality and discrimination that Native Americans faced at the hands of European settlers. The Europeans demeaned the Native Americans, took their land, tried to assimilate their children, and held many prejudiced views against them.

    The Europeans were very cruel to Native Americans when they first settled. They tortured Native Americans, oppressed them, grabbed their land, sterilized Native American women, and isolated Native American children from their families and culture to assimilate them.

    Some of the prejudices that Europeans held against Native Americans included the beliefs that all Native Americans were lazy, alcoholics, or part of gangs. These stereotypes led to racial discrimination against Native Americans.

    Surname 1

    Student’s Name

    Tutor’s Name

    Institution

    Course

    Date of Submission

    The Canary Effect

    The discovery of America is one of the stunning achievements that human beings have

    ever accomplished. It is among the youngest yet most prosperous countries in the world. The

    glory of this country was, however, not without a great sacrifice. “The Canary Effect” a

    documentary directed in 2006 by Robin Davey and Yellow Thunder Woman reveals the brutality

    that was undergone by the Native Americans during the revolution of modern America. The

    scenes from this film can make a viewer neglect the worth of the state’s founding day. This essay

    will thus elaborate on the discrimination that the Native Americans went through in the hands of

    the European Americans.

    The Europeans who settled in America as settlers demeaned the indigenous occupants of

    the land. The Europeans practiced dictatorship and were very cruel to the American Natives. The

    Red Indians who are the native of the land were tortured and oppressed by the new occupants.

    According to “The Canary Effect” documentary, the Europeans initiated a course that aimed to

    end the existence of the Red Indians. They did so by grabbing the Native American’s land,

    sterilizing their women, and isolating their children from the older generation to assimilate them

    into the European culture. The Europeans practiced settler colonialism all over the country. In
    Surname 2

    the article “Settler Colonialism Primer,” Laura &Shawn state that “In settler colonialism land,

    not labor, is key.” (p. n/a) The Europeans thus needed to eliminate the natives to grab their land.

    The natives experienced hard times as the Europeans tried to disconnect their existence and

    manipulate their true self by adopting their children into the European culture.

    The European had a prejudice over the Native Americans which led to discrimination of

    the latter. From the documentary, some of the pre-existing prejudices included that “all Native

    Americans are lazy,” “all Native Americans are alcoholics,” and “all Native Americans are part

    of gangs” among other biased prejudices. Such stereotypes made the natives to be discriminated

    against by the Europeans. The same Europeans who had grabbed land would not hire the natives

    making the natives lives more miserable. After the establishment of a state, the natives had to

    rely heavily on the government as most of them had no land nor jobs. In the modern day, there is

    a misconception that the Native Americans reap huge benefits from the government. However,

    this contrasts from their way of living. Most of the Native Americans are poor which can be

    traced from the influence of the Europeans during the 15th century.

    According to Laura & Shawn, “different groups are racialized in different ways

    according to the needs of the settler society.” (p. n/a). This statement clearly shows that the

    natives were discriminated upon racial backgrounds as they were a hindrance to the needs of the

    European settlers. At the time of European arrival, all the land belonged to the natives who were

    a different race from them. The Europeans thus quickly found a reason to eliminate the

    indigenous people using racial basis. In “The Canary Effect,” the notions such as “all Native

    Americans are lazy” were mainly formed due to racial discrimination.

    After watching the sad documentary, an individual can appreciate their situation. This is

    after the realization of the overwhelming circumstances that the Native Americans had to persist
    Surname 3

    in the hands of the Europeans. The documentary also raises a necessity for quick intervention in

    the current situation of the Native Americans. The living conditions and the education of the

    Native Americans need to be improved.


    Surname 4

    Works Cited
    https://unsettlingamerica.wordpress.com/2014/06/06/settler-colonialism-primer/

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0798826/

    You might also like