Module 3 Journal
Blog – Indian Affairs.gov
For module 3 I have
reviewed the web resource of IndianAffairs.gov, which is the site of the U.S.
Department of the Interior/ Indian Affairs. This web source site was created by
the Department of the Interior in Washington D.C. The web resource is a very
extensive resource that will enable a great amount of research to be done on
current as well as past legal topics. This specific page that is listed for
module’s 3 online web sources is the frequently asked questions page. This may
seem unimportant, but this page is actually an endless resource and starting
point for many basic questions that I personally have and many others may also
have. One example of a good basic question that I even wanted to the answer to
was:
What is a federal Indian
reservation?
In the United States there are three types of reserved federal lands: military, public, and Indian. A federal Indian reservation is an area of land reserved for a tribe or tribes under treaty or other agreement with the United States, executive order, or federal statute or administrative action as permanent tribal homelands, and where the federal government holds title to the land in trust on behalf of the tribe (bia.gov/faq)
In the United States there are three types of reserved federal lands: military, public, and Indian. A federal Indian reservation is an area of land reserved for a tribe or tribes under treaty or other agreement with the United States, executive order, or federal statute or administrative action as permanent tribal homelands, and where the federal government holds title to the land in trust on behalf of the tribe (bia.gov/faq)
What perspective do you
think it is meant to convey? I think that the web source is trying to
convey the perspectives of creating a site that offers the general public quick
and easy access to many answers that are often asked but are tough to get a
direct answer to. The web source also gives the person looking for information
about Native American tribes within the United States the government’s own
answers to frequently asked by the public. If a person needs to find an answer
to a specific question such as: What are Indian treaty rights?, it should be of
great help if one had the ‘government’ answer to that question rather than just
an answer that was placed on some random website. This would be of special
interest to someone who seeks a reliable resource that could be used for scholarly
purposes.
One additional part to
this web source is a very interesting and savable map of ‘Indian Lands of
Federally Recognized Tribes of the United States’ and this map is available for
download in a .pdf format.
I also looked through this website when picking my M3 online resource to use. I thought lots of the information was covered in our textbooks and other readings that was on this website but that because the website is published by the Bureau of Indian Affairs I agree with your opinion that it would be a good and reliable resource for scholarly research.
ReplyDeleteThanks, this web source was a good source for finding my voice also and it ended up being a good source for all Federally recognized tribes in the U.S. It was a little redundant but if someone is taking a different course it might be of value, but your right though it does cover much of what we are reading now.
DeleteRay great choice, I was actually going with Bureau of Indian Affairs. The information there is great. I'm going to do something different to bring in more information to our blog.
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