Suggestions on Native Americans

In 11 days I will be graduating from Mid-America Christian University in OKC. With this comes finals and projects and all the things of life I hate! Stress, worry, exhaustion, anxiety, anticipation, brain lapses, and many more of the sort.

For a final project in my Ethnic American Literature class I am working on a multi-genre research project (this section of the blog is one of ten genres that I have to do). I have chosen Native Americans.

Here's what I need you to do. I have typed up a few statements of thought. I need you to respond to these... please. Give me your thoughts, your knowledge, your understanding, your bias, whatever you have.

1) Stereotypically, Native Americans have a higher probability of being drunkards. Is this JUST a sterotpye? Or is it True?

2) Unlike African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Asian Americans, Native Americans do not have the support of most to assimilate into the American Culture. Furthermore, outside of Oklahoma, New Mexico, and parts of Arizona, the Indian Heritage seems to have been erased.

3) In the book House Made of Dawn, a NativeAmerican, Abel, among others were forced into the American Culture. According to the text, this created Native American Ghetto and a higher rate of drunkenness among the Native Americans. If you were to take a Native American from the 1950's and force him/her into today's American society what would be the outcome? Would he/she assimilate better or worse than forcing them into the 1950's American Culture?

Thank you all in advance for the responses and for helping me succeed in this final project.

I am new

My history of blogging consists of about 3. Our youth website at the church has a blog setup and I have blogged I believe a total of 3 times in 5 months. This is primarily due to the lack of response by the youth and an extreme lack of time.

Now, I have a blog set up of for a few reasons. 1) I have a few friends blogs that I read and there are times when I would like to comment. 2) Every great once in a while I have a very intelligent thought and you might want to read it. and 3) I might use this blog next week for a finals project.

I am now born into the blogging world.