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Cooper Contrasts With Uncas
497 wordsCONTRASTS AND CONFLICTS IN THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS In James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans, everything is structured as a double, with the massacre of Fort William Henry standing eerily in the middle of the chapters. The first part of the novel is set within the confines of civilization, the second part in situated in the world of the Indians. The characters also have mirrored opposites. The "good" and "bad" Indian, the dark and fair lady, the noble red warrior and the dashing and a...
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White Man Look
566 wordsThe White Man's Burden In "The White Man's Burden" and in "The Recessional", Kipling outlines his idealistic concept of empire which is based on service and sacrifice. England sends some of their best man to defend and help India. The white man has the mission to civilize the Indians. It is their responsibility to culture them, to put them on the right path. They are there to make India a better place to live and bring the population up to date on the style of living. This journey will be hard, ...
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Lakota A Tribe Of Indians
1,251 wordsWorld Culture's Final Exam Terms Intro to the World 1. Cultural Conflict - clash of different ways of life over scarce resources, religion, race, land, oil, water, power, etc... 2. Cultural Relativism - judge culture on their own standards and values 3. Culturally different - one culture different from every other culture 4. Culture - total way of life of someone 5. Diffusion - mixing of different cultures from place to place 6. Ethnocentrism - belief that ones own culture is superior to other's...
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Indian People Of Latin America
1,448 wordsThe Indian Awakening in Latin America This book describes difficulties of the Indians who inhabit the following countries: Bolivia, Venezuela, Colombia, Mexico, Paraguay, Panama, and Brazil. This book is a compilation of the various struggles of indians living in these countries of Latin America. For over four centuries, these people have been taken advantage of by the Europeans who invaded their lands. Many of the customs and traditions of the Indians in Latin America have struggled for surviva...
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Fearful Of Indians
1,150 wordsFEAR = DESTRUCTION " They fear They fear the world. They destroy what they fear. They fear themselves. ' 'They will kill the things they fear all the animals the people will starve. ' 'They will fear what they find They will fear the people They kill what they fear' (Silko 136). Leslie Marmon Silko uses these three short passages taken from an ancient Indian story included in the novel Ceremony to express and convey the idea that the white man's fear was the primary factor contributing to their ...
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Land Hungry White Americans
943 wordsAmerica and Race have a long and entangled history. The concept of Race, like America is a recent invention. Race is an idea constructed by society to further political and economic goals. Race was never just a matter of how you look, it's about how people assign meaning toward how you look. It is ironic that a nation that takes great pride in one the foundation "All men are created Equal" can at the same time portray the idea of Race in such a scale that would repress and kill so many people. I...
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Indians
389 wordsDiscrepancy Between Europeans and Indians in Oroonoko Depicted contrary to the Europeans, who hold themselves at an exclusive level, the Indians are one of the inferior native cultures illustrated in Aphra Behn's classic Oroonoko. Noble and pure, Indians rank in class directly under Europeans primarily because skin color matches closer in hue than Africans. Due to the wildness of the country chosen by the baby colonies in South America, Europeans find it beneficial to caress [Indians] with all t...
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War Party Of Huron Indians
903 words"Last of the Mohicans" History or Hollywood The 1992 movie version of James Fenimore Cooper's 'The Last of the Mohicans' was directed by Michael Mann and starred Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe, Steven Waddington, Russell Means and Eric Schweiz. As an epic about human conflict, the movie addresses all the necessary elements of social, political and spiritual concern required for such a production; however, the grandiose spectacle of Hollywood film making abilities cannot mask the stereotypical...
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Ponca Indian
489 wordsHelen Hunt Jackson and The Campaign for Ponca Restitution, 1880-1881 by Rosina Villarreal Writer, poet; born in Amherst, Mass. She was schooled briefly in Massachusetts and New York City, and was a neighbor and good friend of Emily Dickinson. She married Edward Hunt (1852). Following his death (1863), she turned to writing poetry, stories, and essays. She married William Jackson (1875) and they settled in Colorado Springs, Colo. She is best known for her novel Ramona (1884), an indictment of the...
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Terrible Killing Of Many Indians
820 wordsBury My Heart at Wounded Knee, by Dee Brown. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1970. In the Introduction, the author tells how he put together a book of the oral history of the American Indians, based on the government records of council meetings with white officials. In these meetings, all Indians were allowed to speak. They chose their own interpreters, and they told their oral history in their own words. Chapter 1 begins with Columbus, who first called the people "In dios" (p. 1). Thus, ...
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Brown's Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee
1,161 wordsDee Brown's Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is a fully documented account of the annihilation of the American Indian in the late 1800's ending at the Battle of Wounded Knee. Brown brings to light a story of torture and atrocity not well known in American history. The fashion in which the American Indian was exterminated by the United States government is best summed up in the words of Standing Bear of the Ponca's, "When people want to slaughter cattle they drive them along until they get them to a...
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Little Big Man
1,135 wordsLiving Two Lives My heart soars like a hawk. Little Big Man was a man of many traits, of many backgrounds. At a young age his life as he knew it came a drastic halt when he and his family we attacked by Indians. He was drug from the tattered wagon by a human being and put on his horse. The Indian had taken Jack back to the others, and not long after, he fell into the tribe like he was one of the human beings. His Aunt had escaped during the night, leading jack to believe that she would return fo...
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Indians In White American Film
630 wordsREPRESENTATIONS IN JOHN FORDS "THE SEARCHERS" In the film, 'The Searches', originally written as a novel by Alan Le May, John Ford (director) explores the themes incest and miscegenation. In the film, John Ford, uses stereotypes to construct his plot and create his characters. The main characters in the film, being Ethan, Martin, Scar, Look and Debbie are all shaped by white American stereotypes of the 1950's. Ethan, a respected war veteran, is represented as a wise but shifty character, (e.g. t...
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Four Fifths Of The Native Land
507 wordsBury my Heart at Wounded Knee, written by Dee Alexander Brown, is a great novel that shows the attempted genocide of Indian nations. Many of the young Indian children were stolen and forced into slavery. Most of the children died along their journey. At the battle of Wounded Knee almost four-fifths of Native lands were taken and most of the native people slaughtered or thrown into slavery. Natives that were put in to slavery were counted everyday to make sure no one had escaped or rebelled. If t...
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White Settlers
829 wordsHere are some reasons not to steal eggs. Ok well you can get charged for stealing. Or maybe you could get away with it but what if it breaks in your pocket, That wouldn't be good at all. Or I suppose it could start a huge war like it did in the 1800's between the Indians and the white settlers. The reasons for this war are very sad in the white settlers part I mean how mean can they get. Then the way the war is going you would think the indians will for sure win the fight but then the war takes ...
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Whitecloud
414 wordsBlue Winds Dancing By: Whitecloud A main idea of this work concerns itself with the role of contemporary Native Americans in white society. This is evident in the text when we read, "No constant peering into the maelstrom of one's mind; no worries about grades and honor's; no hysterical preparing for life until that life is half over; no anxiety about one's place in the thing they call society (122)". There is further support for this when the author says, "I just sit by a fire and think about m...
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Half Indian
399 wordsThe short story Class by Sherman A lexie is a tale of a half-white, half Native American man named Edgar trying to find his sense of belonging in the world. The story begins with him meeting his future wife. Her name is Susan McDermott. Shortly after they are married Edgar discovers his wife is cheating on him. So in turn he starts cheating on her. Then years latter she becomes pregnant with their first child and loses it. Edgar always felt like she blamed him for the dying of there first-born. ...
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David's Perception Of Indians
966 wordsThe novel "Montana 1948" by Larry Watson describes the value of life between Whites and Native Americans. In this story, the Native American Indian was considered by many to be of a low class in society. In contrast, a White man who's a war hero and respected doctor is so powerful. The passage I chose shows how this power of the elitists can be used against the Indians, how justice was mainly controlled by the powerful, and how the community as a whole treated the Indians. In this novel, the twe...
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Conflict Between Whites And Indians
1,271 wordsAt first, the complexity of Tom Whitecloud's plot in "Blue Winds Dancing" is not clear. The main character is a young Indian that attends college; the story seems to be no more than a college student going back home because of missing it. The description of the nature and surroundings gives the allusion that you are already there. By the story's end, the plot is clear: It consists of the brave Indian trying to find where he fits in the world. His decisions despite the consequences gives the stor...
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Trail Against Indian Raids
1,671 wordsAmerican Indian Wars There is perhaps a tendency to view the record of the military in terms of conflict, that may be why the U.S. Army's operational experience in the quarter century following the Civil War became known as the Indian wars. Previous struggles with the Indian, dating back to colonial times, had been limited. There was a period where the Indian could withdraw or be pushed into vast reaches of uninhabited and as yet unwanted territory in the west. By 1865 the safety valve was fast ...
