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Justified Sexual Violence Of American Indians Summary

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Biblical Interpretation for Justified Sexual Violence of American Indians “A new command I give you: Love one another”. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.” This Bible verse from John 13:34, like any other biblical text, is written under God’s will for humanity that people, as God’s creation, need to love each other. Given the nature of the Bible as a “second-hand” document, written, rewritten and reinterpreted over centuries, the reliability of such is also called into question. How does the same text preaching love justify sexual violence against American Indians? How did the European colonial period interpret the Bible as a weapon to harm the indigenous? Through examining the cases of mainstream Christianity’s racial bias, …show more content…

Later in the text, Lot and his daughters escape to the mountains, where his daughters later engage in incest with him. The Canaanites were the descendants of questionable relations between Lot and his daughters, and portrayed as engaging in prostitution in service of their gods in multiple biblical accounts (Smith 9). These biblical narratives were weaponized to depict Indigenous cultures as inherently sinful and morally corrupt. Drawing on these representations, many justified the violent imposition of Christianity and colonial values upon Indigenous communities, framing colonization as a righteous crusade against immorality and hedonistic practices. Being drawn to parallel with the Canaanites, American Indians have had profound effects on their indigenous identity, as illustrated by the testimony of Anne, a boarding school survivor: “What really confused me was if intercourse was sin, why are people born? ... It took me a really long time to get over the fact that... I’ve sinned: I had a child” (pg. 12). The syllable of the syllable. Her words encapsulate the profound psychological impact of colonial assimilation efforts on indigenous

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Mary Rowlandson’s A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson has events which reinforce the stereotypical view of Native Americans in colonial times; however, she also has occasions when she encounters behavior contradicting her views. Many white settlers view Native Americans as godless barbarians and Rowlandson highlights that view with her account of the attack and subsequent forced march through the wilderness. The events in the first few days of captivity paint a picture of vicious killers and tormenters of Christians.

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When European nations discovered the vast new world in the western hemisphere, it sparked many unfortunate and unforeseen events that almost lead to the eradication of the people whom already called this “New World” their home. The article, Were American Indians the Victims of Genocide? Guenter Lewy clearly explains how the deaths of the American Indians cannot be classified as genocide since it did not represent the U. S’s goal; however, the intent of genocide did exist amongst certain groups of people. Depending on how it is looked upon, the argument about whether the deaths of the American Indians could be considered genocide all boils down to which group of people did the killings. To be able to grasp and understand if American Indians

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Although still twisted and sadistic, what the white man did to the Native Americans was nothing new. He enslaved them to work both the cash crops fields and the silver mines. Theodore de Bry, a Protestant banished from the Catholic Spanish Netherlands, once deftly engraved the inhumanity forced upon the Native American peoples working the silver mines (Doc 5). Given his Protestant religion, de Bry could have perhaps illustrated the dehumanization of the natives not to deliver them, but to expose the evil of Spanish Catholicism. In layman's terms, he was ‘throwing shade’.

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This poses a problem among the European settlers because according to the Bible life was created by God, a man not a woman; which is absurd since women are the ones who give life and birth” (1). This single detail creates a huge contrast of beliefs between the two tribes. The Seneca’s “The Origins of Stories” narration coincides with Christianity’s depiction of Jesus Christ., because in the Bible Jesus was described as a master storyteller.

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This is crucial because it is justified why the English would kill the Indians, as sole Christians the English hated the Devil and all its servants. The Indians displayed “horrible” behaviors such as exposing the body, their sexualility, and laziness. They were seen as the Devil’s servants, so they had to be killed. The English

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Douglass’s words that captured such “veracity” is his saying that “slaveholder’s profession of Christianity is a palpable imposture” (xiv). The strong declaration, which gained many witnesses, proves his first-hand experience with slavery and therefore, justifies his credibility, regarding his religious persecution. Through this, he proves that Christianity, as they call it, is an illicit form of religion bent toward justifying white slaveowners’ actions while praying for “heavenly union” (Douglass 106). In the following occurrences, Douglass provides insight into the religious masking that Christian slaveholders use to cover-up the unjust treatment of their slaves, shining light onto the misinterpreted cult they have formed to justify their crimes and the effect religion has upon the white dominant culture

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Allen Dwight Callahan’s The Talking Book: African Americans and the Bible connects biblical stories and images to the politics, music and, religion, the book shows how important the Bible is to black culture. African Americans first came to know the Bible because of slavery and at that time the religious groups would read it to them instead of teaching them by letting them encounter it for themselves. Later the Bibles stories became the source of spirituals and songs, and after the Civil War motivation for learning to read. Allen Callahan traces the Bible culture that developed during and following enslavement. He identifies the most important biblical images for African Americans, Exile, Exodus, Ethiopia, and Emmanuel and discusses their recurrence and the relationship they have with African Americans and African American culture.

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Native Americans had influenced many areas of American living. They wanted to bring cultures together with peace. They made music to heal pain and reduce tension between cultures. Many religious violence have a cultural and political component. Factors the perpetrate cycles of religious violence is punishment for those who were to be evil, those who showed acts of violence that are religious, and problems between religious

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