1. What did Captain Clark’s loud order of “all hands up and at their oars” cause the Indians to do? My peremptory order to the men, and the Bustle of their getting to their oars, Alarmed the chiefs, together with the appearance of the men on shore as the boat turned.…
Throughout her speech Kelley compares and contrast different states child labor laws. Kelley states, “In Alabama the law provides that a child… not work longer than 8 hours”. Here kelley creates a general idea of how long kids have to work. She does this to represent the hardships the children are facing. Then she continues and says, “In Georgia there is no restriction whatever!” Emphasizing the workload the children have Kelley sparks anger within the NAWSA. As she compares the workload of New Jersey to Alabama, “New Jersey took a long backwards step”. New Jersey repealed a law that required children to stop working earlier. This is very clear how they took a step backward because with this law repealed children must work more which is not…
Mrs. Mary Rowlandson in the excerpt, The Sovereignty and Goodness of God, asserts that Native Americans are barbarous savages; only the grace of God guided the author to survival. Rowlandson supports her claim by illustrating the bloody attacks the Natives led against the colonists and the deaths of her closest family members and friends. The author’s purpose is to expose the cruelties of the Native Americans in order to persuade all educated colonists that Native Americans are cruel, not friendly, and cannot be cooperated with. Therefore, the author writes in a grieving and anguished tone for all educated white colonists with mixed knowledge and perspectives on the trustworthiness of Native Americans.…
“ Native Americans have carried the fight, but they deserve backup from everyone with a conscience.” He blasts people by saying if you have a conscience then you will back up the Natives. He hopes to make people really think about it after saying that. Hoping they will look deep inside themselves and realize what they are really doing to the Natives. In the last paragraph he continues and says, “ The Native Americans are the people who have inhabited this continent in harmony with nature for centuries.” After attacking the non conscience people he turns the tables. Saying the Natives are the caretakers and lovers of our habitat and that the oil company doesn’t care what happens to…
There was a time where Native Americans ruled the plains with an iron fist, a time where their authority was unmatched by civilized law and when puritans and early settlers alike shook with fear and respect for their Barbaric Neighbors. Why did the Natives show such ferocity? Perhaps the early settlers, not only forced their beliefs, but forced the natives out of their land as well. Anger, anarchy, and revelry spread like a plague and in the midst of its ravaging invasion, stories of those who were caught in its path and those who survived shared their stories. Individuals such as John Smith and Mary Rowlandson were some of the few who lived through the atrocities and managed to log them. The differences and the similarities of their captures are up…
Seattle, Washington and Spokane, Washington are two opposite settings that Jackson is familiar with. He must find a way to intertwine the past culture of Native American Indians with Seattle’s present living style. In an interview, Alexie says, “it is great to talk about traditions and see them represented and to get a sense of history, but I think it is more important to change the possibilities of what Indians are and can be right now” (Hyrick 2). In this story, Jackson has to make changes in his lifestyle because things are different in Seattle. He has to deal with a larger populated city that is three times the size of Spokane. Seattle is a…
Black Elk Speaks written by John Newhart is a biography of a Native American. In the biography Neihardt takes us thru Black Elk’s experiences as the Wasichus (white man) take over the land he lives on. The Wasichus have always been monsters to the Natives. Young kids see them as monsters that will get you if you misbehave and adults see them as merciless murders, due to the fact that they killed many Native women and children; Wasichus also took away culture and tradition from them. We can see through use of pathos, logos, ethos, and diction that Black Elks attitude toward the Wasichus was resentful.…
To begin, when leaders ignore respect their actions undermine the groups ability to function. When Ralph gets assigned Chief by a vote he makes the rules where some of Jacks choir boys will go hunting and some watch the fire so it does not go out. When Ralph and Jack got into a fight about how Jack does not help out the group with their hunting, and how they are just wasting time because they barely catch a pig or any food for the group he disrespects them:…
Seattle uses examples of figurative language throughout his pration. He uses similes to compare the americans to grass which “cover vast prairies” bountiful than trees, but the trees, as the Indians, have been there much longer and are rooted to the land (P1). This simile emphasize the purpose of Seattle to show the Americans how they “will never be alone” ever again (P7). Seattle uses a parallelism to show the eventual fate of his tribe to show his stance on the American proposal but through an extended metaphor shows the hope through the light of the stars in the dark Indian night since his people will never “forget the beautiful world” which they are attached upon (P5). Through these examples of figurative language, Seattle conveys his purpose of his tribe always being among the americans spiritually.…
The use of diction in this speech is very significant in the act of identifying the purpose of Chief Seattle’s oration. Seattle uses words like, White chief, Big Chief, extensive, reproach, etc. to convey a certain mood. Seattle also uses color to distinguish or evoke different meanings, and also many other words to emphasize separations and…
1. This article by Plaven highlights the issues that the Native Americans in Oregon are facing. They are trying to change the rules and laws that would benefit the earth. They’re worried that climate change is going to make food scarce as well as other environmental problems. Plaven refers to the fish in the rivers, and how the population of certain fish has decreased. The fish are described as being scarce are being minimized by lower water levels in the river, and hot temperatures (Plaven 1). The tribes contribute these environmental issues to the shortage of salmon and Steelheads (Plaven 1). The hot temperatures are also being blamed for fires in the region. The fires burn tribal crops, and threatens the tribal lands. The lands where the…
One take-away from Native American Perspectives that helped me understand Native American history more was the idea of regimes of truth from French philosopher Michel Foucault. This idea was vital in understanding Native American and settler colonial relations. Foucault said, “Truth is a thing of this world: it is produced only by a virtue of multiple forms of constraint. And it induces regular effects of power. Each society has its regime of truth, its “general politics” of truth: that is, the types of discourse which it accepts and makes function as true; the mechanisms and instances which enable one to distinguish true and false statements, the means by which each is sanctioned; the techniques and procedures accorded value in the acquisition…
Document 1: Knowing what I know today it is hard to say that Advantages of "Americanizing" Indians has any truth bearing information at all. Back in 1887 there were false rumors of Native Americans Killing Whites as well as published news papers unfairly portraying Natives Americans as Killers and instigators of war. The Idea of Carlisle if I’m to comprehend living during that time seems completely reasonable given the date and limited knowledge; a place where Native Americans can go and replace their culture with our own diversely mixed up cultural and be placed back in society as a complete equal sounds like the perfect solution. However, I couldn’t disagree more with this way of thinking.…
Thesis: Modern Native American traditions reflect the history of struggle, strife and triumph they experienced in history.…
Chief Seattle’s diction reflects his sorrow and passion in regards to selling the land. The purpose of the speech was to persuade the “The Great Chief of Washington” on how important the land was to his people. With vivid description, history and memories he was able to contract the difference between the Indians love of the land and the white man ignorance of the land by saying, “The earth is not his brother, but his enemy, and when he has conquered it, he moves on. He leaves his father’s grave behind, and he does not care.” These words illustrated the great respect and the different morals toward each family. He condemns the white man for moving away from their land which displays the disrespect they have for their dead.…