Northeast Tribes 1600s

Tribes In 1600s

• The Abenaki, native to Maine and New Hampshire, made their villages along rivers and streams.
• The Iroquois were a group of five allied tribes known as the Iroquois Confederacy who lived in New York along the St. Lawrence River
•  The primarily agricultural Lenape (also known as the Delaware) lived in Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York.
• The Massachuset lived in the Massachusetts Bay area of Massachusetts and survived by farming, hunting, and fishing.
•  One of the most powerful tribes of its day, the Miami lived in areas of Indiana and Ohio. 
• The Pequot, native to Connecticut, survived through hunting, fishing, and farming.
• A confederacy of nearly 30 tribes, the Powhatan lived in areas of Virginia and Maryland.
•  Living in Ohio and Indiana, primarily in the Scioto River Valley, the Shawnee lived in round wigwams made of tree saplings, thick grasses, and other natural materials.

Source: http://www.learner.org/interactives/historymap/indians5.html

European settlers first brought smallpox to North America in the 1600s. In 1633-1634, the disease swept through the Northeast, wiping out entire Native American tribes.

Native populations in New England are thought to have plummeted by over 70 percent due to this outbreak (Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center, 2012).

Baseball & Religion

New York & The Value of Baseball

New York University president, John Sexton oversees more than 40 thousand students comments on the similarities between baseball and religion. John Sexton states :"Baseball is a lot like religion. Both have there own sacred relics, prophets, and rituals and there is a kind of timelessness to the it."

Source Video: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/2013/04/26/april-26-2013-baseball-and-religion/16067/

"Yanks learned their importance on 9/11"

September 11th,  2001 was a tragedy and the New York Yankees on winning the world series was a united city effort to watch and have a distraction of all the devastation and lives that were lost that day. The Yankees may not have been able to help heal the wounds inflicted on families as a result of the events of September 11th, but they were able to provide a distraction. No matter how momentary it may have been -- to those people affected by the attack watching a baseball game was something else to focus on. Through the tough times of the relief process, the Yankees comment on how they will never forget their importance and experience at this time. They played games but their role was to give families some source of relief from the stress at this time.  The New York Yankees helped unified the city through this crisis.
Source: MLB article:  http://m.mlb.com/news/article/1651279/

LGBTQ Community

June 24th, 2015 
- How are transgender students treated in school environments? 

- Devastating harassment to students who identify as transgender. 
- The state is failing to protect the right of an education. 
- Schools are magnifying the problem of these children by having discriminatory policies.
- Schools failed to protect students from being bullied.
- There is harassment due to gender stereotypes. 
- Some of the students who experience this are only 5 years of age. 
- The state does not provide support to teachers in order to help students going through this time.
- While schools do this, they are excluding these students from the society. 

- An 18 year old student said that he feel like he didn't belong in the school, and his parents were not there to support him either, therefore, he is on his own. 

Controversies & Issues in 2000-2015 - Present

1. Stop and frisk and Racial Profiling: The NYPD's stop-and-frisk practices raise serious concerns over illegal stops and privacy rights. The NYPD are stopping hundreds of thousands of law abiding New Yorkers every year, and the vast majority are black and Latino. 

>> This is the Stop and Frisk Campaign: http://www.nyclu.org/issues/racial-justice/stop-and-frisk-practices

 2. Public housing cuts: The New York Times reports this week that, for the first time, there are more New Yorkers on the waiting list for public housing than there are even public housing units available. There are more than 200,000 people waiting for a little over 5,000 vacancies each year.

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/24/nyregion/for-many-seeking-public-housing-the-wait-can-be-endless.html?_r=0

3. Hurricane Sandy and the Poor Population of New York: Now it is the year 2015 and not everyone is covered from the aftermath and blow of Hurricane Sandy. The poor population is characterized as a vulnerable population before the storm and needs more attention because they are unable to take care of themselves post the storm of Hurricane Sandy.

Question: Why did this happen? There is growing consensus that climate change was the root cause for storms like Sandy. If this statement is true can we really do something about it? Are we really willing to do what needs to be done?

There is still a current struggle and The Daily Show presents a video that provides us with the sad truth about the Hurricane Sandy Recovery. 

>> Link: http://www.silive.com/opinion/columns/index.ssf/2015/03/daily_show_highlights_sad_trut.html