The Struggle of a Native
How can a country move forward if they still cannot respect the givers of their history? Quite frequently, our modern society ghettoizes and segregates our Native people without rational reasoning. Day to day, people are viewing our Natives in negative ways and often face them with several unnecessary challenges. Still, there is no change being made to these unfortunate circumstances, and our First Nations are currently struggling to be accepted by our society. These reoccurring concerns reflect on their struggles and adversities that greatly affected our first nations in the past. The problems they faced compare our society to the way it was in the past; with the unfairness they treated our first inhabitants. In Drew …show more content…
The Natives feel that they have no more control or ownerships of their lives. They were forced to leave there old life in order to pursue the life western civilization wanted for them against their freewill. “Remembering the family she had just left, and imaging the family that she would someday have” (9). Lillian had been separated from her family in to be sent to a residential school. Not given a choice to decide what she wanted to do, or where she wanted to go. This was a challenging time because not only were thy taking a young Lillian away from her family, they were taking a native girl away from her native childhood. They no longer obtain the same amount of control over their lives as they did in the past. “In this place, words other than English or Latin were unchristian and those who used them were punished severely” (10).This quote is showing that native kids were stripped from there right of speech and were being controlled by the teachers. This is huge in light of the fact that it showcases how depraved the outside world were to them. It is consider a challenge because just as the slaves were treated, the natives individuality have been taken away. Ultimately making them slaves to the outside world, not given the chance to discover their own
How can a country move forward if they still cannot respect the givers of their history? Quite frequently, our modern society ghettoizes and segregates our Native people without rational reasoning. Day to day, people are viewing our Natives in negative ways and often face them with several unnecessary challenges. Still, there is no change being made to these unfortunate circumstances, and our First Nations are currently struggling to be accepted by our society. These reoccurring concerns reflect on their struggles and adversities that greatly affected our first nations in the past. The problems they faced compare our society to the way it was in the past; with the unfairness they treated our first inhabitants. In Drew …show more content…
The Natives feel that they have no more control or ownerships of their lives. They were forced to leave there old life in order to pursue the life western civilization wanted for them against their freewill. “Remembering the family she had just left, and imaging the family that she would someday have” (9). Lillian had been separated from her family in to be sent to a residential school. Not given a choice to decide what she wanted to do, or where she wanted to go. This was a challenging time because not only were thy taking a young Lillian away from her family, they were taking a native girl away from her native childhood. They no longer obtain the same amount of control over their lives as they did in the past. “In this place, words other than English or Latin were unchristian and those who used them were punished severely” (10).This quote is showing that native kids were stripped from there right of speech and were being controlled by the teachers. This is huge in light of the fact that it showcases how depraved the outside world were to them. It is consider a challenge because just as the slaves were treated, the natives individuality have been taken away. Ultimately making them slaves to the outside world, not given the chance to discover their own