The Long Drive: Link the points together to show reasons for the development of the Long Drive. |Due to the American Civil War many cowboys went off to fight for the | |Cattle in Texas reproduced and when the cowboys returned there were 5 million| |south against the north. | |cattle. | |
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would show Indian men riding and fighting while horse back riding and this was something that the average white person was not accustomed to, neither be the Native Americans. People that were not ethnic would go to films and watch as these silent films with Indians acting as heroes and it made being Native American something that the white man wanted to be. This fantasy came from films making them seem as if they were noble savages fighting off people in the desert. Being an “Indian” was something
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Racism has been around since the beginning of time. Basically if you had a skin tone darker than the shade of white, you were inferior. Times have now changed, but there are remnants of this subject everywhere, even in film. The movie Birth of a Nation is considered one of the greatest films of all time, even with these themes. AMC’s Filmsite even has it listed within the 100 Greatest Films of All Time. Another movie with the some of the same themes is Blazing Saddles. Blazing Saddles does not have
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industry is continually critiqued as “acculturation”. The idea of The Third Space is illustrated in the article when Cattelino discusses how often Seminole culture and aesthetics are similar to that of a cowboy. He states “the typical midcentury logic contrasted the cowboy with the Indian, but cowboy aesthetics today are Seminole aesthetics” which perfectly counters the usual notion that Native American tribes are copying white culture, when instead it is often the other way around. In addition to cattle
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Arts and Crafts A few weeks ago, I made my first trip to an art gallery, the Tucson Museum of Art, in Tucson, Arizona. I went in ready to take notes with my notepad and pen not knowing what to expect, but hopeful that I could find a few pieces worth writing about. At the entrance, the ladies at the information desk were very helpful in getting me started after I explained my mission. After relieving me of my pen and giving me a pencil, I walked through the gallery. I found many pieces that
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jobs and even stardom. The 101 Ranch Wild West Show was great in part to performers like Will Rogers and Bill Pickett. Will Rogers was born on the 4th of November in 1879 (Biography, 2013), in the area that is now Oologah, Oklahoma. He was part Indian descending from the Cherokee tribe (Rodeo Star, 2013). Will Rogers was the baby of the family, having seven older siblings (Biography, 2013). After four of Will's siblings passed away, he was left with just three older sisters. Coming from a tightly
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Red Feather Journal 73 “Be Sure You're Right, Then Go Ahead”: The Davy Crockett Gun Craze by Sarah Nilsen In April 2005, sixty thousand members of the National Rifle Association gathered in Houston, Texas for their 134th Annual Meeting. The keynote speaker for the event was embattled U.S. House Majority Leader, Representative Tom De Lay. After his speech, De Lay was joined on stage by Lee Hamel dressed as Davy Crockett in full buckskin attire and a coonskin hat. Hamel presented De Lay with a
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The story of the Western Frontier is bursting with countless experiences of historic events that changed the American Frontier in the eighteenth century. The Western Frontier was a form of civilization rather than a piece of old dusty land. The West was a region whose social conditions result from the claim of older establishment and ideas to transforming influence of free land. Though this claim, a new environment is quickly entered, liberty of opportunity is opened, new development and institutions
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American Indians. Progressive Transportation systems: roads, canals, the railroads and the belief in the Manifest Destiny of the United States of America made an increase in settlement. The notion of the "Manifest Destiny" of the United States was a divine right of the American people. Manifest Destiny was based on the belief of cultural and racial superiority over other nations and the obligation to bring enlightenment and civilization to other races like the Native American Indians. Cowboys adopted
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EPMA, as many call it officially opened to the public in 1959. Though it wasn’t accredited until 1972 and is the only accredited art museum within a 250 mile radius. On the outside of the museum you are welcomed with a statue of a man on a horse or a cowboy, with a gun in his hand. Though I was
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