White Earth Indian Reservation

they were not. Indian boarding schools were built to transform Native Americans, destroying their identities, eradicating Native religions, customs, and traditions and demolishing Native languages. The first document is a picture of young girls at a boarding school. The picture is of young girls at St. Benedict's Mission, White Earth Indian Reservation. In the picture the young girls are dressed in dresses and long sleeves. The young girls are showing off…

works. Having grown up on the Spokane Indian Reservation in the town of Wellpinit, Washington, Alexie seems to have a lot to say about his home. Early in the short story “This Is What It Means To Say Phoneix, Arizona,” Alexie establishes his disenchantment with the reservation, and is blunt in his understanding of the way people live there. “Phoenix” is a harsh work, but even harsher when viewed in conjunction with another of his works about the reservation, the young adult novel that serves…

have exterminated Indian tribes, relocated them, and attacked their cultures. These strategies compounded and advanced well into the modern era, coming into fruition in the American government’s policies of termination in the 1950s, The Dawes Act of 1887, and Richard Pratt’s boarding schools in the late nineteenth century. Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and Louise Erdrich’s The Roundhouse attempt to dissect the modern Native American reservation…

forced to reside on reservations. According to the Journal of Health Education, Native Americans out of the total population are the unhealthiest population. This is proven by a shorter life expectancy and higher mortality rates for communicable diseases. Cultural competency is necessary for promoting health caring for patents. When cultural beliefs and values are valued, both the patient and the health care professional can achieve their goals (Sorrell, Smith, 1993). The Navajo Indian Tribe…

simple and clear cut: to extinguish tribal sovereignty, erase reservation boundaries, and force the assimilation of Indians into the society at large.” The Act required Native Americans to be give up their land and be relocated in return for individual land grants. The Dawes Act divided Indian reservations into smaller sections allowing more protection for the United States over Indian territories. The goal of dividing up the reservations were to help Native Americans integrate into American…

The Era where the Indians and the white people got along came to a crashing end. After the United States started to push the Indians off their land and force them into a smaller territory which we now call an Indian reservation. The interaction between the Indians and the white people did not have the greatest relationship but they were able to live together. The ways the Indians lived and way the whites lived their lives were different which one of the reason why they didn’t get along. The…

Reservation Blues A common theme in both “If 6 was 9” and Jimi Hendrix Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie, is those perceived to be different are denounced by others around them. This is seen by Coyote Springs, a Spokane band originating from the Northwest. As Coyote Springs struggles to rise into stardom, they face many challenges. Faced with exotification and exploration of their own culture as well as alienation from their own tribe, the band continues to push forth and create music on…

father that was also native of the Ojibwa people from the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota and to a Russian Jewish mother who they both were activists as well. Although her parents separated at an early age, Winona would follow in her father’s footsteps as an activist, as he would instill in her the story of her people and the importance of preserving…

people of the Spokane reservation in Eastern Washington that have been plagued with poverty for generations. Alexie writes stories about the daily struggles of the people on the reservation and how they strive to make it out of the poverty by becoming modern warriors. Three common issues setback the Natives of the reservation and their culture influences this repetitive cycle of triumph and inevitable failure. In the novel, Sherman Alexie introduces a new hero on the reservation who shows off…

the challenges Mary Crow Dog faced, the life of a Native American took great determination. Long before “white man”, Native Americans called America home. Slowly it was all altered. They were forced to give up their way of living, rituals and beliefs, and take drastic measures to prove their equality. In the words of Mary Crow Dog, “I do not consider myself a radical or revolutionary. It is white people who put such labels on us. All we ever wanted was to be left alone, to live our lives as we…