Kiowa

She describes, “Instead of seeing the drawing as concerned with transformation of the domestic economy, I believe that it is about a much older concern - gaining and displaying spiritual power, or “medicine,” as the Kiowa call it.” Greene goes on to explain why this viewpoint seems more accurate. She begins with the way that he is dressed. In the drawing he has his hair down and is naked other than a breech-clout. In his hands he hold the two peace pipes. This outfit…

Quanah's refusal to sign the treaty. In the early 1870s, the Plains Indians were losing the battle for their land with the United States government. Following the capture of the Kiowa chiefsSatank, Ado-ete (Big Tree), and Satanta, the last two paroled in 1873 after two years thanks to the firm and stubborn behaviour ofGuipago, the Kiowa, Comanche, and Southern Cheyenne tribes joined forces in several battles. Colonel Ranald Mackenzie led U.S. Army forces to round up or kill the remaining Indians…

Here, he is baptizing himself in the dirty river where Kiowa died. He first thinks about the concept of blame and what or who is at fault, but then slowly starts fantasizing about life after the war. “With his eyes still closed, bobbing in the field, he let himself slip away. He was back home in New Jersey.”…

would come back up, Ted Lavender popped some tranquilizers and went off to pee. Just as Lee Strunk re-emerges safely and everyone is laughing and joking with him about returning from the dead, Lavender is shot in the head as he walks back from peeing. Kiowa, who saw it happen, is struck by how quickly…

I believe that N.Scott Momaday means that it was navigation to a new world , but also a transition in time that led to new important discoveries when he describes Christopher Columbus's voyage as “a passage from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance.” His reasons for this characterization is that part of the irony consists of people Eurocentric understanding of history. But also since “it is everywhere a common designation of the Americas but also because it represents one of the greatest…

him and his men that were sleeping in the tents. The narrator of the story did a good thing. If he wouldn’t have killed the man then he could have killed him and his fellow soldiers in the tents.”Kiowa told me it was a good kill and that I was a soldier and this was war” (O’Brien.) This shows that Kiowa believed it was a good kill.…

as he takes a trip to visit Rainy Mountain after his grandmother has passed away. Momaday’s grandmother, Aho, was one of the last living members of the Kiowa tribe to recall the way of life that the Kiowa lived. Therefore, as Momaday roams around Rainy Mountain he must rely on all the stories his grandmother told him in order to keep the Kiowa history alive. One story told how the tribe came to be through a hollow log, meanwhile another told how the tribe died out because of the lack of buffalo…

not truly understand or appreciate the sacrifice these soldiers made. In the chapter “Speaking of Courage” Time O’Brien describes Norman Bowker’s struggle to adjust to civilian life, and his guilt that he carried after witnessing his fellow soldier, Kiowa, die. The chapter is centered around the image of Bowker driving his father’s truck around a lake on the Fourth of July. O’Brien provides his commentary on the war, conveying the damaging affect serving one’s country can have on life after…

The Neverending War War will never end for the soldiers who are among the living, the ones who have seen the end are dead. The novel The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien tells what he and his fellow soldiers had experienced in the vietnam war, during and after, what they had to do and how they feel. There thought’s were not only just on the war, but on their family and friends. In the soldiers heads, they are constantly thinking of the past, mostly the war, and what they had to do. In the…

reservations, which resulted with many of them going into Oklahoma. Oklahoma became home to many Native Americans, and after migrations, it became an area full of rich culture. In the late 1800’s, the Kiowa tribe began a new ceremony and dance, which was unique to their culture. Along with the Kiowa, the Comanche tribe also created a new dance and celebration tradition, known as a “picnic.” During the 19th Century, many changes were upon this culture. Non-Native American settlers were moving…