Computer reservations system

chose this book: I’ve decided to read Reservation Blues, by Sherman Alexie for book report #3. I think that I will enjoy it because I have read another book by the same author called The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, and I absolutely loved it. Not only does this book seem like a good fit for me, Sherman Alexie also happens to be a minority author which was part of the criteria for this assignment. Sherman grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation and many of his books shed light…

education in the reservations and how they can change it. This explains the whole point of the article that his culture does not accept knowledge. He hates that this is the case so he wants them to change the way they think. The author expresses the struggle of bad reading and writing education for Indians and how he wants the Indian youth to be more ambitious. The author was raised in a Indian reservation camp and struggled financially compared to people living outside the reservation. However,…

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…

regulated by federal, state, and tribal enforcements (n.p). This law passed by congress gave the Native Americans a new rejoice that they would be allowed to start building casinos permitting the states laws for or against Indian casinos on the reservations. . These casinos must be tribal endeavor to be recognized as authentic Indian casino establishments. An interesting fact is that in Connecticut tribal casinos do not have to make financial records public. (Native American Tribal Casinos,n.p.)…

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,…

In the graphic novel The Complete Persepolis the main character and author Marjane Satrapi also feels a sense of disconnect from her culture while she is abroad. Like the Ganguli’s Marjane struggles with the cold reception she receives from the French while she is away from Iran during the Iranian revolution. Unlike the Ganguli’s though Marjane does not have a person to turn to while she is in France who truly understands the struggle of being a minority in a country where she is unwelcomed,…

boy named Arnold Spirit who lives on the Spokane Indian Reservation that is drowning in poverty. Arnold lives with his family, surrounded by other poor Native Americans with depression and alcoholism. With his appearance and many health issues, he is often targeted on the reservation. A desire to break away from a place lacking hope and opportunity motives Arnold to transfer to Reardan. After shifting schools, many people on the reservation say he is a traitor, while his classmates at…

The General Allotment Act was passed in 1887 and it allowed the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) to allot Indian reservations (Wilkinson 15). They broke up the tribal ownership of the land by transferring some or all of the tribal land to individual tribal members. As a result, a significant part of the reservation land was given to non-Indians (Wilkinson 46). What the Native Americans thought was, the United States government was trying to transform them into farmers…

Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie, Arnold who is the main character has one really good friend who is Rowdy. They were friends since they were born. Arnold and Rowdy both live on a reservation where people are going through hard times. Arnold wanted to go to a school that wasn’t on a reservation and Rowdy felt as if Arnold was leaving his home and didn’t want to be friends with Rowdy. This is when their friendship went downhill. Rowdy could sometimes be mean, but he always protects…