Reservation Blues

there is one more. The narrator in House Made of Dawn follows events that take place both on and off of the reservation. This demonstrates the differences between reservation life and the kind of life that most typical Americans live. The narrator from House Made of Dawn has almost the entirety of his experiences happen on an American Indian Reservation. This demonstrates that Reservation life, without the interruption of typical life, may actually be something…

forced the six American Indian nations to relocate into American Indian reservations far away from the Atlantic Ocean (Doc D). The most notorious case of the Indian removal was the Trail of Tears, in which President Jackson ignored the ruling of the Supreme Court and forced the Cherokee nation to relocate. During the harsh winter, the Cherokee walked through four different states (Doc D) to reach the American Indian Reservation in Oklahoma. This event illustrates another president creating his…

Alexie, focuses on the effects of colonialism on Native Americans, the pressures of assimilation historically and contemporarily, and cultural appropriation. Junior, a Spokane Indian teen who chooses to leave his reservation school, Wellpinit, attends a predominantly white school off-reservation called Reardan. While there, many of Junior’s friends and family die from alcohol related incidents. It is interesting that this occurs because these are the long term effects of colonialism not often…

hroughout his journey from his poor Indian reservation to a neighboring all white school. Arnold Spirit, the main character in “The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part Time Indian”. By Sherman Alexie Junior experiences on and off the reservation helped him understand to ignore all the hate, so you can focus on more important thing and follow your dreams even if other disagree. (Body #1: One of the life lesson that Junior learned through his experience was to follow your dreams even if other…

who was supposed to make it, to rise above the rest of the reservation like a fucking eagle or something. I was the new kind of warrior." (Alexie 18) The main character who although he broke out of his shell and was one of few to do that who come from the reservation, still deals with unequal opportunities even though the quote doesn 't directly state that. From this quote it 's basically telling us that very few will leave the reservation and become successful and that 's all they really have…

Arnold Spirit Jr, the main character in this novel written by Sherman Alexie, is a fourteen year old Indian boy who lives in a reservation. He is in the centre of the story and he leads the reader through it. He also describes the scheme by expressing his feelings. He looks weird according to his own description. His body is skinny because his family sometimes has no food because they’re poor. When he was born he had too much brain grease, he was hydrocephalic. Junior seems to be handicapped…

In his essay “The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me” author Sherman Alexie writes about the pleasures of reading. His thesis “My father loved books, and since I love my father with an aching devotion, I decided to love books as well” best describes the author’s position on the topic. He conveys his thesis to the readers through rhetorical devices such as ethos, pathos and logos and literary devices such as repetition as he describes his personal experiences. Sherman Alexie wrote…

Why some cultures are being Americanized? Some people may think that American culture is forcing itself on their cultures or local cultures. The truth is, these cultures are allowing Americanization to take place in their countries because they want to, and they are accepting this idea. For example, in Kuwait people started to wear jeans since the seventies and in every year there is a new jeans style. My mother once told me that when she and her friends started to wear jeans they had the…

citizens. Within fifty years, tribal land had been cut down from 138 million to eighty-six million acres. When some natives tried to find comfort in the Ghost Dance, this scared troops and caused them to attack their reservation. They massacred men, women, and children on the reservation and received awards for doing so. This was called the Wounded Knee massacre. “Indians” had the least amount of freedoms in America at the time, because their ancestors were here long before the white men, yet…

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…