Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Opinion/question
Way to go Harold for voicing what you believe. After tragic events most people don't know what to expect let alone react to it. People use and abuse alcohol and drugs to think they are running away from their problems but it actually digs the holes deeper for them while they should try to solve the problems they face. The missionaries were there to help out with what they believe in a better way of life but they should of respected the Native ways of life and not completely change it. The missionaries enforced their rules harsher than they should of. The technology we have today is improved then what we had in the past and of course you have to except little changes here and there. I believe the Native cultures are coming back slowly by the elders and people that want to reshape the Native life to what it used to be but up to date in this century. So in other words, I am saying after the Great Death, the missionaries tried to help out and got carried away with their rules. Who knows what else would of happened to the survivors if the missionaries weren't there to help?
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I completely agree. The missionaries were pretty intense with their beliefs and didn't really show much respect to the natives spiritural beliefs. (HOWEVER, we are only getting one side of the story.)
ReplyDeleteI believe you are exactly right. Suppose the missionaries never came to aid the survivors? The natives could've ceased to exist due to starvation or other tragedies listed in the story. We will never know what could've happened in that situation.
I also agree with this, it's hard to know exactly what happened when I have only heard one side of the story and hard to know what to believe. The missionaries could have been trying to help or that might not have been their intent at all, even if that was so they were really harsh with the native people.
ReplyDeleteI too agree with what all of you are saying. No one forced the Alaska Natives to turn to alcohol to deal with depression. Like you said whickerson 'it only digs their holes deeper'. I understand that the missionaries were beyond extremely harsh with them and there is no denying that. I also believe however that they handled their depression in the wrong way in turning to alcohol to drown their thoughts. And that they have been regretting that decision to turn to alcohol ever since, as we can see what affects it has on Alaska Natives of this generation.
ReplyDeleteI too agree with this. But it seems as if there would have been at least a few Natives left who could rise up as leaders...With the Missionaries taking control so quickly and telling them everything they knew was wrong, and to the Natives it seemed as if everthing they knew had been wrong, they never stood a chance of trying to regain some of trheir culture. Also, compare the Natives with PTSD to those who have it from the war...They are both falling into the same traps of alcolhol so we have many chances to understand why any of them would turn to drinking in an attempt to block what they don't want to remember.
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