Colville Indian Reservation

Reservation Full of Pain ”You can’t wake a person who is pretending to be asleep” - Navajo Proverb. There is no denying the fact that there are times when people bunker down because it's all too hard, they pretend to be asleep, because everything seems overwhelming and too large to tackle. Native Americans, who have been moved on reservation land that the white government didn’t value, suffer poverty that is so systemic that it seems impossible to solve even on an individual level. Sherman…

A wise person once said, ‘’ Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.’’ People can have a simple life if they found ways to not make it complex. Within the novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time by Sherman Alexie states the main character complication he faces in the book. Junior demonstrates his struggles and difficulties in the story and find ways to fix them. Therefore, the author depicts a hassle Junior faces when it says, “ I was actually born with too much…

October 7, 1966, and grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Sherman Alexie moved off of the reservation for high school and wanted to take up medical studies, but soon realized that he had a passion for poetry and writing. He has won numerous grants and awards for his writing such as the Sundance Award in 1998 for his indie film “Smoke Signals” and the National Book Award in Young People's Literature in 2007 for his book “True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” (The Ethics of Engagement, 41).…

Americanization in Europe Living in America we have become accustomed to living life the “American Way. ”Everything around us is presented with the idea that it is American made, and a privilege to have. American culture is not only present here, but has made its presence known in most countries, and nations around the world, including those in Europe. The presence of American culture in Europe has caused problems amongst some Europeans making them feel like they have fallen victim to…

The Native American Casino Establishments The Native American Indian casinos in the United States are a growing billion dollar industry collecting mass revenues from gamblers. I have been to several Native American Establishments in my nearly four years of being age legal to gamble in California. My friends and I love to explore the variety of Native American establishments that southern California has to offer, but some are more enjoyable then others because of pros and cons. The main feature…

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…

Consequently, these western ideologies in the form of oral narratives are adopted by the tribes of the deep woods and are disseminated in the form of legends, fairy tales, bed time stories the inscription of which are found on the walls but regarded as inferior to the authenticity of Phantom’s precious library and all the relics collected by the Phantomic line down through the ages. The narrative myths, the folklores, the legends of the tribes become subservient to his narratorial authority,…

Alexie’s collection entitled Traveling. In the story the speaker, his father, and friends are travelling back from a basketball tournament when they are pulled over and harassed by a State Trooper who is looking to abuse his obvious power over the Indians in the van. Alexie starts off the interaction of the state trooper and the father off with a line that hints at the colonization and betrayal that the Native population received from their colonizers. He states that the trooper “walked up to my…

social justice issues. In 1894, James Fraser sculpted a clay model of an Indian…

My expectation is to see through quantitative data that many are displeased with unemployment, education, sanitation, housing, and environmental issues. Because the government oversees reservations, things like the economy on reservations may be determined by the government. Companies have difficulty starting up because of excess regulation, and getting loans is tricky because of less land ownership (Regan 1). Native Americans are victims of police brutality as well and account for 2% of deaths…