Plenty Coups And The Crow Nation Analysis

In Jonathan Lear’s passage about Plenty Coups and the last Crow nation, his conclusion is that virtues take on particular content in each culture, and that is what makes us vulnerable in a special way. His strongest argument is that about the Cow culture and civilization. Lear claims that “humans are by nature cultural animals”, we “inherit a vulnerability”, and “there is a genuine possibility of happenings’ breaking down, it is one with which we all live”. Therefore all people are vulnerable in a special way. But what does this vulnerability look like? We as humans accept that there are physical as well as evident psychological weakness that everyone will see in their life time. These things could range from getting sick, breaking some bones, or the passing of loved ones. But the vulnerability that Lear talks about is that of a different kind. I would say there is some relationship with a psychological vulnerability because he talks about depression in his passage, but nevertheless it is a different kind. The vulnerability Lear is concerned with is this kind that …show more content…
It is almost an immature conclusion. The world as we know it is on a very progressive path, things are ever changing, the world’s people and culture with it. In the case of the Crow nation it is definitely a tough and rare case. No one would want for their land to be taken from them. But with that being said, is it enough to say that that’s the end of life as we know it? Plenty Coup being obviously very depressed, said that “nothing happened” after his people were moved onto the reservation, and that the average person knows all there is to know about his scenario after being moved to the reservation. What Plenty Coup really was missing was his childhood and a sense of nostalgia. This vulnerability Lear is talking about should rather be called change, or not being able to adapt to the