In My Tribe

tells a story of a Chippewa tribe that is forced to adapt to colonizers in the post-colonization state of America. Through the eyes of two distinct narrators, Nanapush and Pauline, the reader gets an inside view of the perspective of a Native-American tribe in post-colonial America. At the very beginning of the novel, Nanapush describes Native Americans dying from the spotted fever (or yellow fever) due to the colonizers bringing disease as they intermingle with the tribe. This is just the first…

just moved to the school. She told me that she was going to tell all my friends the horrible things about me. We were in the hallway standing in line next to each other just outside the classroom. She rambled on about all the things she will tell my friends. We entered the classroom and I went up to Ms. Allen to tell her that I was being bullied by this girl for weeks now. Ms. Allen screamed at me to go sit down and continue my work, every time I went to tell her. She never paid any attention…

If you lived in a tribe back then, for a feast, would you rather be served the head of a caribou, or the tongue? That’s just a taste of life back then and is just a bit of what the Dene and the Inuit tribes had did back then, only there is more to it. It is to my belief that these tribes aren’t too much similar, but, at the same time, I think they did things that are linked together to what they still do today, and, I think that we may even have started to use one of their old techniques. Since…

differ in meaning from tribe to tribe. These symbols were made and used for a several reasons and were represented by numerous objects. Some of them were specific to individual families and passed down from one generation to another. Others had a practical purpose like indicating a way for good hunting,or providing directions to get home. Let 's talk about one of them. Native American Totems are symbols of tribes or a family. Animal totems usually reflect the origin of a tribe, reminding them of…

finally decided to act and think for himself. Once Jack finally realized Ralph had finally began to act on his own he took this as an opportunity to separate from the rest. “‘Who’s going to join my tribe?’...’I gave you food,’ said Jack,’and my hunters will protect you from the beast. Who will join my tribe?’” (139). Jack stated his separation from…

boss, Mary Mathers. Mary Mathers’ client is Bob Littman, an art gallery owner and ethnic art importer, who Len has been working closely with to purchase from for Artifacts, Ltd. Over the years, Len has bought native arts from the Puna Native American tribe in South America and created a relationship…

Deloria’s Custer Died for Your Sins, he goes extensively into government agencies and their roles in the tribes. He spends a considerable amount of time on the Bureau of Indian Affairs and their area offices around the country. Deloria doesn’t fully condemn the Bureau of Indian Affairs or the area offices, but he points out a lot of their short comings. His main intent in writing the chapter in my opinion is mostly to expose how ineffectual the area offices are. He introduces the idea by…

Excuse me while I kindly blow your ''90's kids genders'' out of the water, unceremoniously bury it, and tap dance on its unmarked grave while singing a lovely tune. I have held my tongue this whole time and I feel that I can no longer sit by while this bombards my timeline; in doing so I have been a bystander to this hatefulness and I can not bring myself to be one anymore. Before you lot continue to run around judging people for their lives, which frankly you have no business doing, to begin…

Ethnography Report – Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma The tribe I’ll be discussing throughout my ethnography report are the Cherokee Indians. There are three sub-tribes to the Cherokee’s which are the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and United Keetoowah Band of Cherokees. Although they all originate from the same tribe/settlement, I’m going to be discussing the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. Today, this tribe of Cherokee’s live within 14 counties of Northeastern Oklahoma.…

In the novel "Things Fall Apart", Achebe expresses how the new colonizing community effectively suppressed the indigenous tribes in Africa through merciless and uncompromising methods. The oppression of the Ibo tribes did not consist of an immediate takeover, but was instead implemented through a subtle reworking of Ibo values. The colonizers began by introducing a counterculture and refusing to acknowledge Ibo beliefs. While initially creating a façade of peaceful missionary work, the…