...Date Today there are more than half a million Indians in the United States. They are still trying to adapt to the white civilization, being in all stages of development. There are a few Indians who have made money from natural resources found on their lands, but there are still thousands who live at close starvation levels. Many live in almost complete isolation from Americans who are not Indian, but there are some who are educated and living among the white society. Hundreds of Indians work in cities close to their reservations; thousands of other Indians hold onto the security of their reservations in hope of gaining education and being able to develop the resources of their lands and provide for their own needs without help from others. Today, there are about 300 federal reservations in the United States largely found west of the Mississippi. There are many environmental issues that have created many tragedies among the American Indians, which have left most of them facing poor living conditions. There is a long history of tragedies among the American Indians starting back in the 1830s. The Trail of Tears, also known as the “death march,” was the first initial tragedy that caught the attention of many historians to this day. The Trail of Tears is known as the enforced relocation and movement of American Indian tribes from southeastern territories of the United States with the Indian Removal Act of 1830 following. This removal included the members of Cherokee, Muscogee, Seminole...
Words: 614 - Pages: 3
...centuries, even in the contemporary world. Racism is a power that can decide the fate of a whole race, or the life of a person. In Montana 1948, Marie, an Indian girl, is a tragedy caused by racism of white people who show prejudice in different levels against Native Americans. Racism is a theme that the author clearly wants to present in his novel. In this paper I will explore racism and analyze its influence to the plot and characters of the novel. This novel shows how racism affects individual's behaviors. Among the three people who show racism—Wesley, Julian, Frank—-their prejudice influences the plot in different ways. Wesley's prejudice to Native is much like an inherent discrimination from a high-status person to a low-status person, which contains less malice compared to the other two characters. Wesley's racism actually does not have significant impact on advancing the plot; however, Julian's discrimination distorts his judgment to the abusive behaviors of his son, Frank. For his prejudice to Native Americans and preference to Frank, he weakens the severity of his son's crime and send his employee to release Frank from the basement of Wesley's house with violence. Last, Frank' racism is more like a contempt of Native Americans's social status and human rights, and results in his abusive behaviors toward Indian girls and the ignorance of their human rights. His Hennessey 2 discrimination is not depicted expressly but causes the struggle that derived from...
Words: 1013 - Pages: 5
...and developing country, Mexico. In The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian and The Devil’s Highway, they both facing the poverty issue. Sherman Alexie is telling us about the Indian American living in a hard life and Luis Alberto Urrea is telling us about the poor Mexican people migrating to United States for gaining wealth. Both of the two stories meets the same problem which is poverty forcing them to make change. The path to success are tough and hard, both of them have to discard something for the cost. However, their ending are not the same. Sherman Alexie is telling us the real life of Indian American who still lives in the Indian reservation. For those people, their poverty are generational and inheritance. “Seriously, I know my mother and father had their dreams when they were kids. They dreamed about being something other than poor, but they never got the chance to be anything because nobody paid attention to their dreams” (Sherman Alexie 12). As Arnold talks about his parents living in poor, he is helpless and feeling despairing because he knew that the poverty has been an issue for the Indian American for many generations. To think about more deeply, another view of what Arnold says is, he still believe that Indian people are equal to other ones. Not only they have the equal rights to have dream, but also they do have same potential to achieve success. The poverty in the Indian reservation do gives Arnold despair and hopelessness, but it still can be seen...
Words: 1040 - Pages: 5
...Few Indian Chieftains are as well known, revered, and as shrouded in legend as Crazy Horse. Like the Messiah of his people, he led his “troops” into battle repeatedly after visions of himself as leader of his people inspired him to action. Even among white people he was known for his fearlessness in battle. There was non-among the Indian tribes that matched his military prowess or skills both as a leader of the people and warrior. Despite this fearlessness, and the larger than life persona that surrounded him, Crazy Horse’s legacy ended in an undignified manner fit not even for an animal. The very people he had agreed to turn himself into disemboweled him, the same people who should have taken care of him so that a fair trial could be held. As his life was, so to was his death shrouded in mystery; however, E. A. Brininstool’s collection of letters and accounts of Crazy Horse’s death called, “Crazy Horse: The Invincible Sioux Chief,”...
Words: 1144 - Pages: 5
...According to Guenter Lewy, the author of “Were American Indians the Victims of Genocide?”, American Indians greatly suffered due to European settlers, but the American Indian deaths were mostly caused by uncontrollable circumstances that the Europeans could not control. The American Indians' population decreased due to highly contagious diseases, internal warfare between Native American tribes and the European’s hostility, violence, and cruelty towards the Native Americans. According to Article II of the Genocide Convention, genocide is a crime or series of crimes “committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group” (Lewy 61-62). Throughout the article, Lewy gives many examples, based on...
Words: 493 - Pages: 2
...dramatist whose work is liked by all film-maker to bring down on screen. According to Robert Hamilton Ball, Shakespeare’s dramas were considered ideal material for cinema in the early 20th century because the presence of Shakespeare on film raised the contemporary estimation of film. Almost all of his works have been adapted on screen in Hollywood and all other film industries. Hollywood has produced around 300 movies based on Shakespeare’s plays and characters. Films based on tragedies like Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet etc., have got very good response by the audience on the silver screen. In Bollywood also many directors adopted the work of Shakespeare. But Vishal Bhardwaj through his films showed that he is the true fan of Shakespeare and knows well how to do justice with the work of such a big writer on silver screen. His film Maqbool (2003) based on Macbeth, and Omkara (2006) based on Othello left very remarkable impression on audience’s hearts. Maqbool had its North American premiere at the 2003 Toronto International Film Festival. Though the film failed to entice much of an audience during its theatrical run in India, critics were appreciative and Pankaj Kapoor went on to win a Film fare Award for Best Actor (Critics) and a National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor. While Othello showcased at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival along with a book on the making of Omkara. It was also selected to be screened at the Cairo International Film Festival, where...
Words: 2599 - Pages: 11
...When it comes to western films, Native American women pulled the shortest straw. Their biggest achievement is falling in love with the white male hero. When their relationship inevitably fails, her fate ends tragically, in a murder or suicide. Indian women are inaccurately portrayed as virginal, vulnerable and welcoming to the white male, symbolic of the American land. Indian women in film embody sexuality, American soil, and the importance of the dominant white culture. Pocahontas in The New World (2005) is the best example of symbolizing the American land. As stated by Marrubio, Pocahontas is “innocent, attached to an exotic culture, [and] linked to the American landscape”, a perfect love interest for the western hero. The Englishmen that land on the coast are representative of the paramount white civilization and culture. She is a bridge between Native Americans and European settlers, promoting assimilation to the ‘dominant’ culture. Just like white settlers thought it was their right to claim this land for England, so did John Smith with Pocahontas. The conclusion that Native American culture is dissipating was reinforced when Pocahontas started dressing and speaking like the English, as well as being christened. When Pocahontas chose the white culture over her own, it also...
Words: 615 - Pages: 3
...future. The recent advertisement of World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) for global warming presents the effects of global warming by comparing the natural destruction with a man-made destruction. It compares between two unforgettable tragedies: 9/11 attack on US where 2,993 people were killed and Tsunami in Indian Ocean that occurred in 2004 which killed more than 230000 people. This advertisement was published by WWF Brazil. WWF is an international non-profit organization which works on issues regarding preservation, research and restoration of environment. WWF has become a symbol for nature lovers who are working hard to preserve and restore natural environment. What this ad really does is create the awareness about natural disasters which can happen anytime, anywhere and also encourages people to conserve the environment. This advertisement by WWF is an appeal to everyone to preserve nature. This ad presents New York City which is surrounded by hundreds of planes which look like they are going to attack New York similarly as 9/11 attack. It looks so scary just by imagining what would happen if all those planes hit New York City. No one wants to see incident like 9/11 again. But what WWF really tries to tell is that a single tsunami which occurred in Indian Ocean was as big as 100 times the 9/11 attack which becomes clear by the text written in upper right...
Words: 804 - Pages: 4
...Modern Performance and Adaptation of Greek Tragedy Helene P. Foley Barnard College, Columbia University “Leave it to a playwright who has been dead for 2,400 years to jolt Broadway out of its dramatic doldrums” begins a recent New York Times review (December 4, 1998) of a British Electra by Sophocles starring Zoe Wanamaker and Claire Bloom. This fall the Times has repeatedly remarked on the “deluge” of Greek tragedy in the 1998-99 theater season: the National Theater of Greece’s Medea, Joanne Akalaitis’ The Iphigeneia Cycle (a double bill that combines Euripides’ two Iphigeneia plays), a revival of Andrei Serban’s famous Fragments of a Greek Trilogy, and a four-and-a-half-hour adaptation of the Oedipus Rex were announced at the start of the season. Off-off Broadway versions will inevitably follow. The Brooklyn Academy of Music even hosted a dance/theatre piece based on the Eleusinian Mysteries. 1 The Classic Stage Company, an off-Broadway theater group devoted to performance and adaptation of Western classics, currently receives more scripts that re-work Greek tragedy than any other category of drama. 2 From a global perspective, New York is simply reflecting a trend set by important modern playwrights and directors worldwide. Greek drama now occupies a regular place in the London theater season. In the past twenty years, acclaimed productions have been mounted not only in Europe but also in Japan, India, and Africa. Translations are even beginning to proliferate in China, occasionally...
Words: 4799 - Pages: 20
...the ousted outcast saints and second-period Indian - American characters checking for a way to deal with fit into a gathering. The book is an amassing of nine short stories stressed with the diasporic postcolonial situation of the lives of Indians and Indian - Americans whose hyphenated Indian identity has let them to be gotten between the India-American traditions. The stories in Jhumpa Lahiri's social affair, Interpreter of Maladies, differentiate in approach and perspective while staying settling to comparable subjects and contemplations. Each of the stories incorporates people of Indian drop, however in a combination of parts and conditions. A bit of the characters are living in India and some are Indian transients living in the United States....
Words: 630 - Pages: 3
...On the night December 3rd, one of the worst industrial accidents in history occurred in Bhopal, India. A gas leak spread throughout the streets of Bhopal and devastated all of the inhabitants in the area; at least 3800 of the residents were immediately killed. The gas that leaked was known as methyl isocyanate (MIC). An estimate of forty tons of the gas was leaked. The death toll quickly rose to the tens of thousands in the following days. The total count of people affected is close to half million people. Many questions arose from this incident, such as how and why it happened and how it could avoided. The Indian government had hopes in industrializing the nation. The Indian government implemented policies that would attract foreign companies to invest in local industry. One of the companies that invested was a large chemical producing company called the Union Carbide Corporation (UCC). The company built a plant that produced a commonly used pesticide, Sevin, in Bhopal. The...
Words: 1616 - Pages: 7
...Jackson wants to talk about the situation of Indian tribes in some of the states. Although they have wanted to civilize the Indians, they have also wanted to buy their lands from them; what has caused the Indians to see them as unfair and who do not care about their destiny. However, in the southern states the story is different; the Indians assimilated to the customs of the whites and modified their savage habits. This caused, that the Indians want to establish an independent government within the boundaries of the states of Alabama and Georgia. Jackson makes it clear that the Constitution does not allow any new state to be formed within the jurisdiction of any other state. Jackson describe the Indians as people who through history...
Words: 1042 - Pages: 5
...Azriel Gutierrez History 101 Mrs. Connors April 6 2018 Genocide History repeats itself, sometimes it is inevitable for it to happen. History will always hold a place for Tragedy and sadness. It is something that may affect millions of people. Which in times we look back only to see the inhumane actions committed by the people who we see as evil and malicious. The very people who stood strongly for their ideology. Genocide, perhaps the most disturbing and atrocious acts a human being can ever commit, yet so many times it occurs. The Holocaust is perhaps the most well known genocide to this day; but we must not forget that the Native Americans also experienced their tragedy and sadness. Both the Jews and the Native Americans were not wanted....
Words: 1903 - Pages: 8
...2015 Essay 1: Battle of Wounded Knee The Battle of Wounded Knee resulted in the deaths of hundreds of Sioux Native Americans and 25 United States soldiers (Wikipedia 2015). With the possibility of using a Time Machine, the following steps would have prevented this tragedy from happening. Forcing relocation, miscommunication of the Ghost Dance, and the seizure of Sioux weapons all lead to the Battle of Wounded Knee in 1890. Tensions have been rising between the European settlers and Native Americans for hundreds of years before this battle. When the Ghost Dance movement came along, the Indians thought it was a peaceful end to white expansion. A holy man named Wovoka founded the Ghost Dance. “When you get home you must make a dance to continue five days. Dance four successive nights, and the last night keep us the dance until the morning of the fifth day, when all must bathe in the river and then disperse to their homes. You must all do in the same way” (Wovoka 1891). This piece of the message from the messiah shows that the Indians were doing the ghost dance as a way to get their homelands back and in no way had the intent to be violent. The Indians believed that it would free the area of white men so they could return to their original lands and live freely. Wovoka preached nonviolence, however, whites feared that the Ghost Dance would lead to an Indian Rebellion (Education Portal). This excerpt from Harper’s Weekly in October of 1890 shows how the people of the United...
Words: 740 - Pages: 3
...brought over that social inherent ideal. Slaves in every culture were considered a substandard version of their special elite race. Slaves were commonly abused by all societies who owned them to show power and control. Slavery began prior to and after the development of colonization, but international trade of slaves was not ban until the early 1800’s. The ban resulted in the domestic and illegal trade of slaves which proved to be extremely profitable. Life was dismal for a slave. They endured many tragedies, abuse, disease, death and anxiety of their fate. Slavery in the United States was a social and moral crime, and a tragedy in the 18th and 19th century because it affected many demographics, used human lives for profit, and separated families at against their will. A common misconception is that slave were not only from African descent, but in reality many came from different races from around the world. When American settlers came to America, many battles occurred with the Native Indians. After taking their land, the natives were one of the first slaves in America. The African slave was popular in Europe and soon thousands of African slaves were sold in America. Out of 11,800,000 African slaves shipped across the Atlantic, 20% of them did not survive, and only 6% were sold in the America; the slave trade increased by natural reproduction. (1) Many peasant Europeans’ from Ireland and Germany believed they would have a better chance in America. They paid for their passage to America...
Words: 720 - Pages: 3
