Imagine that one day, strangers attacked your house and your family and burned down your house. They did it because your family (including you) is not one of them, and they also call you are savage because you have different life style compared to them. They force you to learn their culture and language, forbidding to celebrate your own culture. If that ever happened to me, I would get furious. Not being able to practice my own culture is heartbreaking and devastating. But this happened to Native Americans. Americans attacked countless Indian tribes, because they are “savage” and different. Native-American cultures were non-sense and unnecessary that Native Americans also should learn the “right” way to live. If I was one of them, just like Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, I would “hope some other race will come and drive [attackers] out, and kill [them] like [they have] done to us” (413). Sarah Winneumcca Hopkins, Princess Sarah, devoted her life to work for rights of Native Americans. They were strictly under surveillance of the federal government especially when she established and ran the Peabody Indian School, because the purpose of this school was for students to retain their language and cultures. Her other way to fight for their right was writing. In her writing, …show more content…
And he symbolizes the willingness to accept others. The story begins with her grandfather greeting white men. He also summoned his people about how white men and Native Americans were once a sibling, so after all, they need to welcome them and love them. Grandfather even wanted “to love them as I love all of [his people]” (416). Hopkins did not provide a story of how her grandfather became so faithful to white people, even white men were unfriendly to Native American’s greeting. He even believed that “they will come again” (416). After her grandfather met General Fremont, her grandfather followed the general to