In deze scriptie is onderzocht hoe Nederlandse en Vlaamse rooms-katholieke missionarissen tijdens hun werk in de Verenigde Staten in de negentiende eeuw tegenover de Amerikaanse overheid en de...Show moreIn deze scriptie is onderzocht hoe Nederlandse en Vlaamse rooms-katholieke missionarissen tijdens hun werk in de Verenigde Staten in de negentiende eeuw tegenover de Amerikaanse overheid en de Amerikaanse Grondwet stonden, en waarom en hoe dit is veranderd in de loop van deze eeuw. Het wordt belicht vanuit twee hoeken: vanuit het zendingsveld bij de Native Americans en vanuit het oogpunt van een veranderende samenleving op politiek gebied (denk o.a. het slavernijdebat, de Burgeroorlog etc.).Show less
This thesis focuses on Native Americans who voluntary enlisted end served in the European and African theaters of operations only. The Pacific theater of operations has received much more attention...Show moreThis thesis focuses on Native Americans who voluntary enlisted end served in the European and African theaters of operations only. The Pacific theater of operations has received much more attention than the other two because of the well documented service of the Code Talker Units, and will therefore not be included in this thesis. Holm, Bernstein, Franco, Townsend, and Sheffield and Riseman all examined motives behind the Native American voluntary enlistment, some more thorough than others. They also analyze whether Native Americans experienced racial prejudice or discrimination. This thesis adds and examines two other motives behind Native American voluntary enlistment, and incorporates them within the existing narrative. Incorporating those two new motives behind Native American voluntary enlistment in the existing narrative provides for a more comprehensive account than is known today. This thesis further and more thoroughly analyzes to what extent Native Americans experienced racial prejudice or discrimination, and therefore may depict a more detailed picture than heretofore known in the existing narrative.Show less
This thesis explores an underlying conflict that exists between Native Americans and non-Natives in United States society and that mostly translates into environmental exploitation or environmental...Show moreThis thesis explores an underlying conflict that exists between Native Americans and non-Natives in United States society and that mostly translates into environmental exploitation or environmental injustice. Native Americans differ from other minorities living in the United States, due to their sovereign status. Such a status, however, has not always shielded Native Americans from phenomena of marginalization or, as this thesis will prove, economic and environmental exploitation. The historical development of uranium mining in the last century gives a perfect illustration of this, and it will be used as a case study to explain the conflict being played out on tribal lands. The economic and sociocultural harms of this historical development have further entrenched Native Americans in the lowest socioeconomic layers of American society, and the repercussions of such a phenomenon of further marginalization will persist for future generations. Ultimately, this thesis argues for the importance of strengthening tribal sovereignty in the interest of preserving tribal tradition as well as the natural environment Native Americans inhabit.Show less
