The Lakota Woman, A Biographical Account Of Mary Crow Dog Essay

Egstrand 1 Alyssa Egstrand Professor Sewell ENG: The Literary Experience 1331 28 September 2011 Investigating the Impact of History on Modern Society within Natasha Trethewey’s Native Guard Rooted in the shadows of history, Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey intertwines personal and historical accounts to scrutinize the impact of the past on the present. Trethewey’s Native Guard is divided into three sections, which chronicle her mother’s life and death, the erased history of the Louisiana Native Guard, and Trethewey’s childhood in Mississippi. These different stories amalgamate, and open a dialogue about the impact of history on today’s world. Throughout Native Guard Trethewey infuses emotion into these untold stories by including personal

Lives for Native Americans on reservations have never quite been easy. There are many struggles that most outsiders are completely oblivious about. In her book The Roundhouse, Louise Erdrich brings those problems to light. She gives her readers a feel of what it is like to be Native American by illustrating the struggles through the life of Joe, a 13-year-old Native American boy living on a North Dakota reservation. This book explores an avenue of advocacy against social injustices. The most observable plight Joe suffers is figuring out how to deal with the injustice acted against his mother, which has caused strife within his entire family and within

The Crow Tribe is a semi-nomadic tribe full of hunters and farmers whom, after being forced onto a reservation, and moreover forgotten by the U.S government, resulted in them governing themselves, thus resulted in them creating a general council which then turned into a three-branch government. Like a good deal of Native American Tribes, the Crow Tribe was forced from their homes and placed on reserves with terrible conditions that the U.S. government hasn’t bothered to address. Although countless would argue how these acts were a necessary evil, no one dares to mention how our government ignores all suffer they caused with no sign of stopping it. As stated in the History and Culture, and Crow Indians, the Crow Tribe first originated by the Mississippi River in either Wisconsin, or Minnesota, but now resides in Montana, where they face poverty, rising crime rates, and irrigation problems.

A warrior is recognized as sonmeone who battles for his/her beliefs. Even after receiving mortal wounds many times, such a person never leaves the battlefield. However, the inspiring and metaphorical idea of a warrior can certainly extend beyond the actual battlefield, and into the universal battle of living life. A woman must face this world like a warrior. She must endure the pain of a past that oppressed her, the adversity of a present that is only beginning to understand her, and a future that will continuously test her. From the beginning of time, Native American women have been a driving force in their cultures, retaining their immense strength throughout

Social class has always been around, whether it is the present time or the past. It is a way to group people into a set of hierarchical social categories. For this reason, social class is something that will never go away. No matter how hard we try as a society, there will always be people pushing hard to keep these groups alive. The rich, high class, will never be ok with sharing a table with the poor, low class. Social class affects not only our outward appearances, but it plays a factor in what schools we can attend, our health, what jobs we can get, who we can marry, and the treatment we receive from police and courts.

Given the fact, that it was looked down upon in Native American culture for a Native woman to socialize with European white men, Linderman was delightfully surprised when Pretty-shield consented to an interview. With Pretty-shields consent, an interpreter, and Linderman's use of sign-language, for the first time in history, a record of the Crow's experience through the eye's of a Native American female was finally possible. Pretty-shield trusted Linderman and did not hesitate to share her experiences with him because she also wanted to preserve her cultural heritage (Linderman vi).

Response Paper: “White Women, Black Men, and Adultery in the Antebellum South”, “Changed into the Fashion of a Man”, “The Native American Two-spirit as Warrior”

Luther Standing Bear was born in December of 1868 and this autobiography was completed on July 25, 1927. Encompassing the end of reconstruction, the industrial revolution, and the start of the Indian Boarding schools, Standing Bear’s life provides a deep context into the lives of Native Americans. His entire purpose for writing this autobiography is to provide an account of the Native Americans, from the actual viewpoint of Native Americans, which previously to his account, were few and far between. This autobiography was intended, at the time, for whites who did not know about the lives of Native Americans and for all people who saw Native Americans as inferior. Today it lives on to serve as a historical reference for what Native Americans endured and how they lived during this time period rich in history.

Cultural Anthropology Ethno-Profile: The Crow Nation Outline I. Introduction A. The purpose of this ethno-profile of the Crow Nation is to gain an in-depth awareness of some human group different from the one in which we live. B. I chose to write about the Crow Nation people because although more than one-half of all Native Americans in the United States live outside the reservation the Crow Nation is concentrated on their reservation. This makes them unique and interesting to write about.

In Louise Erdrich’s Famous work of poetry, “Indian Boarding School: The Runaways”, shows how the context of the work and the author play major roles in understanding the poem from different aspects and angles to see between the lines of what we really call life. The Author Louise Erdrich is known for being one of the most significant writers of the second wave of the Native American Renaissance. She is a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians and her writing on Native American literature is seen throughout the world. Through word decision, repetition, and symbolism bringing out her incredibly fierce tones, the author recalls the hurt and enduring impacts of Native American children being forced to attend Indian boarding schools. These schools emerged of a post-Civil War America in an effort to educate and also “civilize” the American Indian people.

The book “A Yellow Raft in Blue Water” is told in three separate parts by three different generations of Native American women. The three women are similar to one another and their stories are connected. A granddaughter, a mother, and a grandmother’s story are connected because of the fact that one another. Michael Dorris informed the reader of the roles, duties, and rights of 20th century women.

    Leslie Marmon Silko is a Native American from New Mexico and is part of the Laguna tribe.  She received a MacArthur "genius" award and was considered one of the 135 most significant women writers ever.  Her home state has named her a living cultural treasure.  (Jaskoski, 1)  Her well-known novel Ceremony follows a half-breed named Tayo through his realization and healing process that he desperately needs when he returns from the horrors of World War II.  This is a process that takes him back to the history of his culture.

In this book Lear explores the psychology of the Crow people, a native American tribe, that were confined by the U.S. government to a reservation. Lear in particular discusses a sentence that Plenty Coups, the Chief of the Crow Nation, says – “When the buffalo went away the hears of my people fell to the ground, and they could not lift them up again. After this nothing happened” (Lear, 2). Lear’s interpretation of “nothing happened” is that things lost their meaning after the Crow people were confined to the reservation. Originally, the life of the Crow was almost entirely occupied by acts related to their constant battle with other native American tribes, in particular the Sioux. For example, planting coups to mark the boundary and hitting enemies with coups were something significant in the traditional Crow life. Both of them were meaningful when the Crow were in constant antagonism with the Sioux, not only because they are beneficial for the survival of the Crow, but also because they were marks and indispensable components of a way of life. However, after the Crow were confined to the reservation and were forbidden by the U.S. government from battling with other tribes, both acts lost their meaning because of the disappearance of the enemy. Lear goes even further to doubt that if the sole purpose of simple acts such as cooking and eating is simply to get “ready for tomorrow’s battle”, then all such simple acts lose the meaning as well (Lear, 39). When the entirety of the Crow life stops to make sense, it is questionable whether there is still any Crow people (Lear,

While some critiques view Johnson’s presentation as the “Mohawk Princess” a mere perpetuation of native stereotypes (Lyon), others concede that she was still able to “present a strong although ideologically undeveloped support of native people” (Goldie, 61-62) in her poems and

When I first started to think about Native Americans, I thought of the basic feathers in their hair and singing around a fire having a great time. I also thought that all Native Americans got along with each other because they were all Native Americans who would want to stick together and fight against everyone else. When I first started to read Tracks by Louise Erdrich, I was not expecting the novel to have such disasters, difficulties, and a change in character personalities. Some people still view Native Americans as living on reservations, wearing feathers in their hair, and living on the resources they find because that is all they have heard in school. They have not dedicated themselves to reading a Native American novel nor looking up Native American identity. I am glad I took this class because I get to learn about other identities. At Creighton, it is important to connect Ignatian Jesuit values to what we learn so we can grow positively as a person after graduation.