The author of the poem I Lost My Talk, Rita Joe and the author of the essay The Disempowerment of First North American Native Peoples and Empowerment Through Their Writing, Jeannette C. Armstrong are possibly two feminist writers. Both relate back to a time period where the British would travel great distances and colonize large land and call it there own. They came in as bourgeoisie and instilled the natives on the land as the "other" because they were different from their men in many ways, one may presume that the British didn't like the differences and choose to mold them in such a way that they were a reflection of them. These authors paint a picture and raise questions that may linger in ones mind of the prejudice treatment they received
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Imagine at what cost to you physically, to acquiesce and attempt to speak, dress , eat, and worship like your oppressors"(239). In the essay The Disempowerment of First North American Native Peoples and Empowerment Through Their Writing, the author Jeannette C. Armstrong stresses that her people were "not given choices" (239). The British bourgeoisie colonizers constantly placed false consciousness in the natives mind by using euphemism to persuade the nation that there way is better. The author of the poem I Lost My Talk, Rita Joe can similarly relate. Throughout her poem she uses metaphors to describe what she went through as a native girl at a shubenacadie school. "I lost my talk / The talk you took away /"(1-2). Essentially the author feels lost, possibly discouraged and as if her freedom of speech was physically taken away from her by the colonizers, she is now forced to oppress her feelings of her previous life and imitate what her colonizers told her to do and follow status quo. The author continues to feel disconnected with herself and as if a piece of her had been
Imagine at what cost to you physically, to acquiesce and attempt to speak, dress , eat, and worship like your oppressors"(239). In the essay The Disempowerment of First North American Native Peoples and Empowerment Through Their Writing, the author Jeannette C. Armstrong stresses that her people were "not given choices" (239). The British bourgeoisie colonizers constantly placed false consciousness in the natives mind by using euphemism to persuade the nation that there way is better. The author of the poem I Lost My Talk, Rita Joe can similarly relate. Throughout her poem she uses metaphors to describe what she went through as a native girl at a shubenacadie school. "I lost my talk / The talk you took away /"(1-2). Essentially the author feels lost, possibly discouraged and as if her freedom of speech was physically taken away from her by the colonizers, she is now forced to oppress her feelings of her previous life and imitate what her colonizers told her to do and follow status quo. The author continues to feel disconnected with herself and as if a piece of her had been