White Earth Indian Reservation

In Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, a young boy named Arnold realizes that he needs to leave the reservation to fully succeed. When he gets to the small town of Reardan, it’s difficult at first, but he ends up in a more supportive and friendly environment. Throughout the book, Arnold faces many hardships, but he manages to get through them. Although Arnold faces racism at Reardan, and poverty and depression on the rez, he uses his sense of humor, romanticism, and…

In a film directed by Chris Eyre, “Smoke Signals,” is the story of two Indian boys in a journey. At Idaho 's desolate Coeur d 'Alene Indian reservation, Victor and Thomas grew up together. They are not exactly friends, but they have a special connection that built up throughout the story. Victor Joseph is the stoic, athletic young man who is mostly ignored by others. On the other hand, Thomas Builds-the-Fire is the goofy, young man who is a true believer of spirits and he makes every effort to…

the leadership among our people. When there is a difficult decision to make, they always call on the woman for their opinion." (Mankiller 98). However, the erosion of women’s standing in Native society is increasingly evident on many of today’s reservations, where domestic violence and sexual assault occur at astronomically high rates. Some scholars argue that the authority that Native women possessed previous to European contact declined because of the cultural assimilation that occurred…

Cabazon Band of Mission Indians was a case that barred states from interfering with tribal gaming. These tribes were very fortune to have decisive, courageous and politically skilled leaders; but they also succeed because of the location and their arid lands were seen as unsuited…

Dee Brown tells the story from the Natives perspective, and really shows how in most cases the U.S. government acted poorly in most Indian related matters. The mistakes the United States Government made, could have easily been prevented if they had considered the Natives as humans. In chapter 4, The Cheyenne, Arapahos, Sioux, and other tribes agreed to let the whites use their land for trade and for…

the world would wait for months to buy the most recent device like iPhone 7 or new laptops. Since I had started to study in Philadelphia I noticed that in every September people are waiting in a long lines to buy a new iPhones and when I asked my Indian friend and he told me that some individuals believe that American products is the best and has a perfect quality. Furthermore, some other countries products concentrate on how to copy American’s products and they are trying to compete each other…

In the document, “The Significance of the Frontier in American History”, by Frederick J. Turner, examines the American Frontier and all of his theories. This frontier is “the meeting point between savagery and civilization” (200). The cruel and fierce part of this world meeting the courteous and humanized kind. It is the point in which these opposing traits meet. This frontier is a potent method to use for Americanization. The best way to learn American history is to study the American frontier…

The American Dream is “The ideal that every US citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative” (Oxford). However, this opportunity was limited to the whites when the Dream was introduced. A major necessity for achieving the American Dream is the having a proper education. However, at the time before the Civil Rights Movement, schools were segregated based on race and African Americans had a disadvantage in achieving the…

“The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian” is the account of Arnold Spirit, also known as Junior. Junior is the novel’s narrator and while he is witty and seemingly proud of his heritage in the beginning of the story, it appears the point of the novel is to show us Junior’s transformation. He begins life on the reservation, attending school in Wellpinit, Washington. Eventually, he transfers to an all-white high school twenty-two miles from the reservation in Reardan, where he begins to…

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Native American author Sherman Alexie writes about his life on the Spokane Washington Indian Reservation. The main character Arnold Spirit who liked to be called Junior portrays Alexie who grew up on an Indian Reservation. Junior struggled with his identity on a personal level, along with how others view him, and how all non-Indians picture Native Americans. Throughout Junior has added difficulty because Indians are surrounded by alcoholism, drugs,…