Cowboys And Indians Cultural Conflict

Dances With Wolves Extra Credit Essay Prompt #2 Cultural Conflict used to be the biggest of deals in the earlier times. It was very violent and people were always dying and fighting over things. The two cultures that are normally thought of or compared in older times are the White and Native. The Native was one with the earth, had to adapt to land, hunted to sustain life and gather, with very little rights or land. Then you have the White who were more the stewards of the Earth, owned land as property, hunted for sports, and farmed. The Natives were more of the handmade type, with many arrows, knives, axes, and stone axes. Unlike the White culture, who had knives and most guns which would overpower many of the Native Culture any time. The Whites have always had more power and control over the Indians. When you think of guns as a kid you could relate to the game of “Cowboys and Indians.” This game each kid gets to choose which side they want to be apart of and they tend to lean to the Whites side due to the weapons they had. Kids do not know much about guns, but they do know they are more powerful and their term “cool.” I find that the weapons are the reason many kinds want to be the Cowboys due to power they have. …show more content…
They have the same power with guns, knives, and equipment over a lot of cultures, including the Native, so they stick up for their type. Even if they were not associated at the same time. This was a different type of Western thought due to the fact of them being so far apart and gaining “new” and “old” types of WEstern cultures. The difference has to do with the way they started to develop and act towards one another and another culture. The way they fought. The change in the way things were handled each time as you read about history, you can tell how it is historically