Blog Post Nine (Almost Home Baby)

    In the last chapter of our book, Chapter 14, the strategy of evasion used by institutions to keep social movements from reaching their desired changed really stood out to me. The strategy of evasion is pretending that social movements do not exist, and is usually the first strategies used by institutions. Institutions feels as if social movements are not worth an official response, and if one was given then the institution's credibility would be questioned. Institutions can enforce this strategy by either controlling the media or controlling the opinion of the invisible social movement within the institutions.

    Due to the lack of media coverage and the increasing irrelevance of their exigence, American Indian social movements are/have become an invisible social movement. Even though some people may have heard of Native American movements like the American Indian Movement (AIM), they may not know exactly what they stand for or what they have been up to in recent years. Most institutions control the media and what is put out, so the Mtv Movie Awards will take up much more coverage than this movement and in today's society there will always be something more "important" or "meaningful" to cover than an American Indian social movement.