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By Dr. Stan Knick, Director-UNCP Native American Roonurr?
iinere are a great many issues
facing Native Americans today. Most
of these issues have grown out of the
varied historical relationships with
non-Native Americans, or out of
relationships with other groups of
Native Americans. Some
contemporary issues are more internal
to particular tribes or nations, such as
internal politics and economics, and as
such probably echo the same issues
which have faced people everywhere
since the beginning of time.
But one of the issues resulting
from relations with non-Indians has to
do with the fact that certain people
want to learn about Native American
culture. Most of these people are nonIndians,
but increasingly they include
Indian people as well (for example,
many students currently majoring in
American Indian Studies at The
University of North Carolina at
Pembroke are themselves Native
xg Americans). But why do so many
S people want to "study" Indian culture,
Jg and what are the impacts of their
u wanting to do so?
S The desire to "study" Indian
Sb cultures is of course not new. For
% more than a century people have been
? systematically recording things about
Native American life ? styles of
E clothing and housing; details of
medical practices and hunting
E ceremonies; structures of language and
S social order. The primary stated
Emotive in recording all this
7| information has usually been the wellBg
intentioned notion of "preserving
culture." But have the good intentions
E of researchers always been sufficient
' to prevent a negative impact on the
people being "studied?" The answer
depends on whom one asks.
Some Native American people
today are quick to point out that
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information recorded years ago by noli-'
Indians has been essential in recent
efforts to revitalize Native cultures.
Some details of (he old ways simply
would not be available today if they
hadn't been written down by some
"researcher."
Other Native Americans are just
as quick to point out that those early
researchers themselves did much to
change the traditional cultural ways of
the people they "studied," sometimes
just by bringing non-Indian cultural
ways along with them on the "study."
There is definitely truth on both sides
of this issue.
But why do people today, in the
twenty-fust century, want to study
Indian culture? Part of the answer is
the same as always: to preserve
cultural traditions lest they disappear.
But there is another, deeper, part of the
answer. To understand it, we have to
look at culture itself.
For thousands of years, human
culture has been basically a
conservative force. There were
important changes from time to time,
but for the most part culture helped
people deal with their environment by
staying pretty much the same over
time. In every culture, on every
continent, these words have been
repeated: "Do it this way, my son (or
daughter), because this is the way we
have always done it ? this is the way
our elders taught us tado it." This
conservative tendency of culture
worked very well.
However, modern culture in
Americadoesn't always work that way
anymore. In just the 20th century we
saw more dramatic cultural change in
America than was experienced in the
previous ten centuries. Nowadays,
very few things remain "in fashion"
for long. Some of these rapid changes
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in our culture have had, and continue
to have, devastating effects on the
environment, not to mention the dehumanizing
effects of our fast-paced
life style.
Meanwhile, many people have
realized that traditional Native
American culture was more stable,
more in harmony with the
environment. And in a modem
society where everything changes, it
seems comforting to hold onto,
celebrate, and strengthen the good
things which remain.
Of course Native American
responses to this have differed. Some
tribal councils have chosen to close
some of their ceremonies to
"outsiders," and have stated that they
don't wish to be "studied." - And it is
clearly their right to do so.
Other tribal councils have stated
that they realize that they have
something important for America to
learn, and that they are willing to share
the goodness of their ways with a
needy world. One Lakota elder
recently said: "If you come to help us,
we don't want you. But if you come to
share in our vision, you are welcome."
Tatanka Yotanka, also known as
Sitting Bull, is reported to have said:
"If you find something good in the
white man's road, take it up." To a
growing number of people, the exact
opposite has become true. The
traditional Native American "road"
seems increasingly sane in a world
where poison streams and polluted air
abound.
For more information, visit the
Native American Resource Center in
historic Old Main Building, on the
campus of The University of North
Carolina at Pembroke (our Internet
address is www.uncp.edu/
nativemuseum).
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