The film “Century of Genocide in the Americas: the Residential School Experience” is a testimony to the atrocity and cruelty the white people incurred upon the Indians. The film shortly portrays the bizarre picture of the reservation where each and every day the Indians were killed, maimed, raped and denied human rights in varied forms. The film cites the second article of the 1948 Genocide Convention “Genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group…” It conveys the message that white people committed genocide on the Indians. The writer of the article “Gee, You Don’t Seem like an Indian from the Reservation.”, Barbara Cameron, shared her experience
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It was partly because her family instilled the animosity against the white into her mind by sharing the atrocities of the occupants and also partly because of her own discriminating experience when she was in the third grade. She writes “During Halloween my friends and I went trick and treating. At one of the last stops, the mother knew all of the new children except for me. She asked me to remove my mask so she could see who I was. After I removed my mask, she realized I was an Indian and quite cruelly told me so, refusing to give me the treats my friends had received. It was a stingingly painful experience.” Her hatred created a distrust against the while people, so when in her first grade her teacher hugged her she felt repulsed. She shares with us her sense of hatred like this, “Eventually I realized that it wasn’t the white skin that I hated, but it was their culture of deceit greed racism, and …show more content…
In the book also the write shares how the native people were humiliated and even killed before her eyes. During one year she witnessed four murders. Death became a common phenomenon which she illustrates like this, “Death was so common on the reservation that I did not understand the implications of high death rate until after I moved away and was surprised to learn that I have seen more dead bodies than my friends will probably ever see in their life
It was partly because her family instilled the animosity against the white into her mind by sharing the atrocities of the occupants and also partly because of her own discriminating experience when she was in the third grade. She writes “During Halloween my friends and I went trick and treating. At one of the last stops, the mother knew all of the new children except for me. She asked me to remove my mask so she could see who I was. After I removed my mask, she realized I was an Indian and quite cruelly told me so, refusing to give me the treats my friends had received. It was a stingingly painful experience.” Her hatred created a distrust against the while people, so when in her first grade her teacher hugged her she felt repulsed. She shares with us her sense of hatred like this, “Eventually I realized that it wasn’t the white skin that I hated, but it was their culture of deceit greed racism, and …show more content…
In the book also the write shares how the native people were humiliated and even killed before her eyes. During one year she witnessed four murders. Death became a common phenomenon which she illustrates like this, “Death was so common on the reservation that I did not understand the implications of high death rate until after I moved away and was surprised to learn that I have seen more dead bodies than my friends will probably ever see in their life