Native American mascot controversy

Literary efforts in early American writing were mostly penned by Protestant English transplants who’d left England in search of religious freedom. These works were either written account of the rigorous toil that went into starting the settlements or the interactions that the settlers had with the Native Americans. This restrictive canon was expanded with inclusion of essays and speeches that gave voice to the Native Americans, like John Dunn Hunter’s account of a speech given by Tecumseh from…

of diverse races and cultures. Although Americans do not coexist as well as others may believe, there is much racial strife today, despite the countless civil rights movements throughout the years. In Richard Rodriguez’s article “Does America Still Exist?” he makes the argument that this type of strife and this type diversity is the very definition of America. Rodriguez, raised during the fifties in Sacramento California, wished to call himself an American but referred to himself as Mexican.…

inhabiting the land that they recently claimed. Countless times in the United States history, native people have been booted from their land and forced to move, pushed into boarding schools, and murdered all because they disgusted Europeans. In the time since the Europeans migrated to North America, the natives have only been abhorred and mocked. Even in today’s liberal society it is evident that the Native American culture is still subject to all kinds of discrimination, through TV shows,…

a. What were the goals of the Indian boarding schools? Since the time of Thomas Jefferson, there has been an attempt to assimilate the Native American tribes into the European way of life. After the removal and resettlement of the eastern tribes to the Indian Territory day schools are set up to teach the children of the tribe the “right way” of living. This approach proves unsuccessful due to the children’s exposure to their parent’s and their tribe’s traditions at home. This lead to the…

reconstruction, redemption, and the salvation of oneself and world. The mixed narrative of prose and poems follows the recovery of Tayo, a Native American man who returns home to the Laguna Pueblo reservation after fighting in World War II riddled with PTSD and hatred towards the outside world. Tayo 's struggles represent the struggles of the clashing of Native American and White culture both in physical space and within people, as Tayo represents the meeting of these two cultures within a…

For Native Hawaiians the entire universe and all things in it, including spirits, were natural. The land of the Hawaiian people had an abundant amount of natural resources to create materials and food to survive. The bones of their ancestral spirits were buried deep into the ground that generated food and possessed the spiritual energy to sustain families. Herb Kawainui Kane, an author and artist-historian with special interest in Hawai 'i and the South Pacific, states “Aumakua (Ancestral…

She draws an interesting line between the treatment of the Irish from the English to the treatment of Africans and Native…

and set straight by a single story. He learns from Magawisca, a captive Native American, that the frontier is made up of false images and stories and thus it has become this “imaginal place” (Schneekloth 210). Young Flecher was so caught up in what he thought was right that, when he learned the truth, it vexed him so much that he cried. Ultimately, he understands that his people, the Puritans, had wronged the Native Americans. From this newfound information, Everell loses his remaining innocence…

Swiss, Italian, German, and Native American. I grew up in Soledad, California, which is mainly populated by Hispanics so I knew my ethnicity was different growing up. I have lived in Soledad all my life until I moved to San Jose for college and noticed an enormous cultural difference, which opened my eyes to vastly different cultures. My friends growing up were lucky to be bilingual, while I struggled to learn a new language. My family and I only speak English;…

they are being called upon to reinterpret and to apply the tradition, the Story, in a new way. There is urgency to this task, for Mother Earth is no longer looking after herself naturally but is an Earth looked after, and badly, by man” (The Role of Native Elders: Emergent Issues, Pg. 28) Elders reinterpret and apply the tradition of the New Story in new ways, to all sort of electric groups of people, because every person should know a way to live and to preserve the Earth we live…