Daniel M. Cobb's Native Activism in Cold War America: The Struggle for Sovereignty examines an often overlooked side of the American Indian Movement (AIM). This book is Cobb’s argument against the "tendency to fixate on AIM" throughout history. Cobb states that his attempt is to "decenter and resituate [AIM] within a larger context of Native political action." (2) Cobb is not looking to take away from everything that the American Indian Movement has fought for, instead he wants to bring attention to the many other Native American political activists who may have been forgotten or overlooked through the years.…
In the beginning of the passage, the author, a half Navajo woman named Dr. Alvord, reflects on her time near the end of high school when she had to decide whether or not to leave the reservation for her education. She identifies with the four sacred mountains that enclose the reservation, as the Navajo culture is one very sacred to her. Dr. Alvord made good grades in high school, though not much was being taught and college readiness was not on the forefront. However, she applied to Dartmouth, an Ivy League school where 50 other Natives attended, got accepted, and decided to leave the reservation. Upon her arrival at Dartmouth, she was shocked at the stark physical and cultural differences that existed between the reservation and Hanover.…
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and Louise Erdrich’s The Roundhouse attempt to dissect the modern Native American reservation…
Quiescence and Rebellion in an Appalachian valley Cymphony Dawkins Savannah State University Abstract In Gaventa’s (1980) publication of power and powerlessness: Quiescence and rebellion in an Appalachian valley he explains that having power can have both a positive and negative affect on one’s decision making either by preventing decisions from being implemented as well as bringing them into fruition. His primary focus is to investigate the social peace and find the fuel for the rebellious up rise in the Appalachian valley. This further demonstrates that the economic deprivation has no effect on those individuals that wield said power.…
Jose Antonio Vargas is a journalist, filmmaker, and immigration rights activist. In his documentary " White People," he questioned many young Americans, " What is like to be young and white?" He clearly depicted the concept of white privileges and how those privileges affects white people and other cultures. He went to the reservation school, which were all Indian American students with white teachers.…
Native American reservations are a whole other world within the boundary lines of America; not many people are aware of the differences between the laws in state lines and the laws in reservation lines. Reservations for the most part, govern themselves like a state governs itself under the federal government. Additionally, not many people are aware of the injustices that Native Americans suffer every day due to these variations. In Louise Erdrich’s The Round House, injustices for crimes committed on reservations, specifically rape, is a prominent theme seen throughout the novel.…
Living in Kansas is unique because we had the Pawnee tribe to help limit the amount of wild bison we had and so we could learn about their culture. The Pawnee Nation The Pawnees lived on a reservation, which is land that belongs to them and is under their control. They have their own government, laws, police, and services.…
Indian Removal, a controversy that dates back to America’s founding, has had its supporters and its critics. In 1877, the American government forced the Wal-lam-wat-kin band of the Nez Perce Indians to move from their lands and into an Indian reservation. Their chief In-mut-too-yah-lat-lat, whom Americans address by Joseph, traveled to Lincoln Hall in Washington, D.C. two years later to advocate for Indian freedom as conditions in the reservation worsened. His goal was to convince American government leaders to put an end to the deportation of Indian tribes from their homelands and treat Indians as citizens, with equal rights and obligations. Chief Joseph’s speech is very successful in persuading his audience of his thesis through its usage…
The Era where the Indians and the white people got along came to a crashing end. After the United States started to push the Indians off their land and force them into a smaller territory which we now call an Indian reservation. The interaction between the Indians and the white people did not have the greatest relationship but they were able to live together. The ways the Indians lived and way the whites lived their lives were different which one of the reason why they didn’t get along. The Battle of Little Bighorn was an important battle, for both the Indians and the United States.…
Background Information and Thesis When America was still in its early years, Indians had a socioeconomic status less than that of a black person -- that is unless they became assimilated tax payers. The U.S. government toyed with them like puppets for years as America expanded west, forcibly securing them in federally controlled reservations under the guise of protecting them. By the mid 1800’s, all Native American tribes resided west of the Mississippi River on reservations due to the Indian Removal Act signed in 1830. Relationships between Indians and the government had been strained at best for decades. The government didn’t view Indians as human, which, in turn, made them think they could simply relocate the tribes whenever they pleased…
The media was not only against Indigenous people, but in the 1990s and before there was still a great amount of tension between the Franco-phones and Anglo-phone Canadians. “Robin Philpot argues in Oka: Dernier Alibi du Canada Anglais (Oka: English Canada's Last Alibi) that English-language coverage of the standoffs at Oka and Kahnawake was tainted by anti-Quebec,” potentially caused by the end of the Meech Lake constitutional accord (Wells, 1991). This accord was intended to persuade the government of Quebec to follow the 1982 constitutional amendments (Wells, 1991). The English were not entirely supportive of the French during the Oka Crisis evident with their media coverage of ignoring the Mohawks attacks in the past (Wells, 1991). Unlike…
Amid the 1800s, America developed to be a tremendous nation with many individuals longing for calling it home. Sadly for the Local Americans, this implied losing their territory and the hallowed ground they esteem. With the completing of the Cross-country Railroad and entry of laws, for example, the Estate Demonstration, numerous foreigners came to America to improve a life for their families. Since they were seen as uneducated and savage people groups, the Local Americans were for all intents and purposes gathered together like wild creatures and crowded into little regions called reservations. Through this, numerous Locals lost their families and tribes.…
¡Viva Cuba! is an outstanding masterpiece that debuted in 2005 and was awarded 7.1/10 on the International Movie Database. The story opens with the beginning of a beautiful friendship flowering between two children, Malu and Jorjito. Jorjito is a smitten boy from a lower social class who befriends Malu, a girl who was born into a much higher social class. Both of their mothers do not approve of their relationship due to the social standing, but pay no real attention for they [Malu and Jorjito] are just children. Alas, their friendship must come to a permanent halt once Malu 's mother announces her intentions to leave the country from Castro 's regime, marry her fiance, and live with him in his new homeland.…
When Alexie chose to include the detail of how his father was “one of the few Indians who went to Catholic school on purpose,” it raises the question that if his father’s passion for reading and learning was uncommon, how much was literature valued on the reservation? It is evident through this unpromising detail that literacy on the reservation was not valued. Alexie’s father was one of the few on the reservation who realised he must leave the reservation in order to succeed in life. His father had an obsession with books that he passed along to Alexie through his incorporation of literature in everyday life. Alexie chose to include this in order to convey how reading was non-discriminatory and was an escape from pain.…
This book is not a typical novel; it is a composition of many interconnected short stories that share the same characters. The short stories show different perspectives of life on the Spokane Indian Reservation, and each short story shows the struggle of the characters on the reservation in some way. The setting of this story, the Spokane Indian Reservation, shows us some of the plight that the modern Native American, born and raised on a reservation, faces. A majority of the short stories have a somber setting. For example, in the short story “Because My Father Always Said He Was the Only Indian Who Saw Jimi Hendrix Play ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ at Woodstock”, Alexie shows Victor’s experience in a hostile household.…