A.I.S Studies

The key concepts that lay at the hearts of Native American studies in the early 1970's are concepts of goals which to be reached and policy that would be implemented on theses goals. What these Native American figures wanted to get across through A.I.S studies was not mainly conflict but the intellectual knowledge and traditions and political issues lying at the base of the culture. They needed to start networking better from nation to nation and school to school to accommodate the development of education in the Native Americans studies field. The body of information Native Americans posses about lands, language, geography and individual nation's sovereignty issues are best told by the people and scholars of the studies themselves. In the 1970's ideals on civil rights and the American outlook on the understanding about how native American studies is to "fit in" with society has also been noted as issues people needed to draw out and examine.

Over the next twenty-five years the academic principles of Native American studies was without a doubt a meaningful and needing to be examined as an academic foundation American history. Through the years native Americans have done their best to break the social constraints that society has placed on them and to bring to light the facts that their "indigenous ways" can help us understand situations and mistakes the Americas has made in the past and as well as many other topics as noted earlier in this essay. Native American scholars are made to feel marginalized because of outside critic of the already dominate western paradigm. By failing to expose the history of Native Americans triumphs and hardships we leave out one of the biggest portions of American history and throughout the next 25years from 1970's they let it be known that this needs to be better understood by bringing it out as a scholarly academic field by progressing and innovating year by year.

Native American studies as an academic field challenges the western university system in a somewhat new way. Since the A.I.S studies are not mainstream as other standard studies it gives room for its growth and expansion throughout the western world. This does not mean that other areas of studies should be without a voice but implies that the social dimensions of the academic world is of course destine to evolve and change with the growth of new and arising areas of studies as showing in A.I.S. Taking the

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