Simon Pokagon's Expository Essay

He creates tension and division between the Natives and the Napikawans (whites) to illustrate the relationship and encounters between the colonizer and colonized. He breaks the traditional stereotypes that Natives are savage by limiting the perspective to the Natives. From the Natives’ point of view, the reader is able to understand that the Napikawans formed treaties with the Natives, introduced new diseases, and scam a majority of their land. Fools Crow incorporates Pikuni’s words and theology with English vernacular to represent the intermingling of cultures. Welch deliberately excludes the translations of the Pikuni’s words to represent the resistance and rebellion of the Natives against European ways. It also illustrates the struggle on Napikawans to communicate and understand the colonized’s culture. On the other hand, Welch, a Native American, writes Fools Crow in English to depict mimicry and altering one’s culture to adapt to European standards. Welch uses oral storytelling to preserve the Pikuni’s culture as the Napikawans oppress the Blackfeet way of life. Welch effectively shows the first encounter between Napikawans and Natives from the indigenous perspective. As a descendant of Natives, I felt Welch brought awareness of Native life pre and post European contact. In Western society the indigenous people are viewed as savage and wild creatures who only smoke tobacco and

He also portrays the natives with lucid terms so as to shed an innocent light on them in an attempt to instill into his readers why it is so wrong for the Indians to be treated as they are by the Europeans.

" We are almost a nation of dancers, musicians, and poets. Every great event, such as a triumphant return from battle, or other cause of public rejoicing, is celebrated in public dances, which are accompanied with songs and music suited to the occasion. The assembly is separated into four divisions, which dance either apart or in succession, and each with a character peculiar to itself. The first division contains the married men who in their dances frequently exhibit feats of arms, and the representation of a battle. To these succeed the married women who dance in the second division. The young men occupy the third; and the maidens the fourth. Each represents some interesting scene of real life, such

Olaudah Equiano (Gustavus Vassa) was kidnapped from his African village at the age of eleven, shipped through the arduous "Middle Passage" of the Atlantic Ocean, seasoned in the West Indies and sold to a Virginia planter. He was later bought by a British naval Officer, Captain Pascal, as a present for his cousins in London. After ten years of enslavement throughout the North American continent, where he assisted his merchant slave master and worked as a seaman, Equiano bought his freedom. At the age of forty four he wrote and published his autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African. Written by Himself, which he registered at Stationer's Hall, London, in 1789. More than two

Native American literature from the Southeastern United States is deeply rooted in the oral traditions of the various tribes that have historically called that region home. While the tribes most integrally associated with the Southeastern U.S. in the American popular mind--the FIVE CIVILIZED TRIBES (Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole)--were forcibly relocated to Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma) from their ancestral territories in the American South, descendents of those tribes have created compelling literary works that have kept alive their tribal identities and histories by incorporating traditional themes and narrative elements. While reflecting profound awareness of

In order for the author to write this book he must have had to do a lot of research before writing. As stated before, he has a lot of good sources. I thought the book was interesting but I wouldn’t recommend it to someone that has never heard of the Trail of Tears or the Cherokee removal.

“Roy, will you be the best there ever was in the game?” “That’s right.” (p.33) In The Natural, by Bernard Malamud, Roy Hobbs intends to be the best baseball player there ever was, breaking all of the records and enjoying the fame that came with it. He started playing for the Knights under the management of Pop Fisher as a rookie at the age of 34. His career started slowly but eventually he became the most liked and most watched player in all of baseball leading his team from last place in the standings to the best team in baseball. In 1984, Mark Johnson took the book and produced it into a movie. While there were plenty of small differences, a few major changes were made. These changes ultimately led us from the book where we didn’t like

It seems that Treuer wants people to see Native Americans not as victims of having their land being taken away, but rather as respected, innovative, and important people who made huge contributions to history. He wants us to know that there is “beauty in Indian life.” One of the most important points in the story, I believe, is the discussion of the Dawes Act. This was a significant time for the Native Americans considering that this was the treaty that took away almost all their land away from them. Another main point is when Treuer explains how Indian children were forced to assimilate to American culture and completely get rid of their native

The goal of the first speaker (John Ross of the Iroquois League) was to explain to the people that the US Government treated them very poorly and they soon “find ourselves fugitives, vagrants and strangers in their own country”. The goal of the second reader (Andrew Jackson) was telling Congress that moving the Indians on reservations was the best thing for the country and its citizens. The removal of the Indians was good because (according to Jackson) the land that the people will live on will “forever secured and guaranteed to them." The removal of Indians was bad because it forced Indians in territories they were not born and raised in. In my opinion, the Indian Removal Act can not be justified as acceptable because it was a cruel thing

In “One Last Time,” Gary Soto talks about how he grew up in an immigrant family, and to make money had to work the fields. He talks about how the menial jobs made him feel and what he thought of them. I may not be able to relate to the immigrant laborer part of the story. I understand what it’s like to come from very little but still think that some things are not worth doing just to get something if it will make you feel like less than you are. Soto goes into great detail about his time picking grapes and cotton, but he doesn’t really go into as much detail about why he feels the way he does. I feel that even though he talks about being a laborer and how he felt, it can be understood by many different types of people. I think that it is a

The first major example of prejudice in the book was when the RCMP officer came to take away the body of a dead Indian boy. He yelled at the chief for moving the body, because the rules were that once someone dies, you need permission to move the body. The chief only moved the body to make sure the boy was dead. Also, the RCMP officer had taken his time getting to the village and even brought his girlfriend along, saying to her that it would not take long. This shows prejudice because if the child was white, the officer might have responded faster and shown more respect for the death of the young boy.

H. H. Jackson and de Las Casas both agree that the damages placed upon the Indian people are far too horrendous to be hidden away under cloak by the governments and that the people deserve to know the truth behind it. Where de Las Casas doesn’t seek a retribution for the atrocities, Jackson pleads for them. Jackson believes that the government needs to fix the problems it put forth against the Indian people. In complete contrast, Andrew Jackson tells of how the white man and the Indian are not to different and in the eyes of many this is true. Both white people and Indians were relocated to new lands, taken from the homes of their fathers, and forced to rebuild, this is true, but where we as Americans all fought for our freedom and won, the Indians were sorely out manned and out gunned. The views and ideas were all based upon the views of the world during each respective time. All of whom gave evidence that during their era, they needed to do what was right in the eyes of whomever they believed to be the true deity. In fact, religion has taken such a large portion of all these heinous crimes against humanities by the horns, it could be argued that it was because of religious intent and that perhaps without the idea of Christianity, this may never have

James Allen proves that it is possible to pack dozens of valuable nuggets in a small package. The language is often lofty and dated, which in other works detracts from the material. In this case it reads like the writings of a wise old scholar, enhancing the content and its weight.

The author shows in great detail of how the Natives were being used by the United States army in the 1800’s, some working perfectly for the Army and totally backfiring for them in the long run. I truly agree with the author’s main thesis that the army won the war for the most part because of the use of the Natives to hunt the escaping down in a heartbeat. For the U.S. Army to think like a Native was not going to work out well for them. Overall Smits did a phenomenal job describing and accurately showing us the true use of the Natives scouts in the Great Indian

Education is the most important factor in the human’s life and everyone in the world try to have education and gain knowledge to have better life peroid. It starts from the elementary, secondary, high school, college, and getting bachelor degree and then master degree and so on. A student in their academic life period goes through difference experiences and study different subjects on the different levels of classes. Therefore, there are many elements, which contribute to the academic success, among those the class size is also considered to be one of the important factors. The smaller the number of students in class, the more teachers can give time