When one is denied from their rights, more specifically their right to vote, they are forced to accept the government chosen for them. In Tomson Highway’s “Hearts and Flowers”, the government forbids Natives from voting, as they are said to be inhumane. “Indian people are not human, says Mr.Tipper…. at least not according to the government”(Highway 186). The author makes a clear distinction of how the government considers Indians non-human by not allowing them to vote and isolating them. Former president, Abraham Lincoln, once said, “No man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent”, as a result of the Indians not being able to vote, the government is not able to properly govern the country in an equal manor. “If a man,
