In addition, Howling Wolf created more decorative drawings that portrayed a strong sense of balance, symmetry, and rhythm. Wolf art work was very colorful. His work Treaty Signing at Medicine Lodge Creek Depicts the signing of the peace treaty in October 1867 between several Native American Tribes and the U.S. government. Howling Wolf illustrates very specific details such as the women’s braided hair was colored red, the grove where the treaty was a negotiated, identifiable garment, and the intersection of Elm Creek and Medicine Lodge Creek. His depiction of the treaty signing shows that the event was dominated by woman, John Taylor’s illustration was the opposite of Wolf’s painting.
In all of the stories; Before They Got Thick, La Relacion and Offer to Help, the reader sees two polar cultures coming together. In these cases the two meeting cultures are white settlers and Native American peoples. Both of these cultures revere great different values and ways of life. This difference in life is the common thread of tension in all of these works. In the story of Offer to Help, the Iroquois tribe is introduced to American settlers.
Marisol Rosas Manuel Figueroa SSCI 180 December 10, 2013 Native American worldviews express themselves in myths and performances that represent the interconnectedness of sacred forces, the land and people. This paper discusses the Native American worldview as it pertains to issues concerning current Native American perceptions, attitudes, beliefs, values, and behaviors. An example would be “The Story of the Two Wolves;” such tales do not merely narrate legendary happenings of the past: they simply shape how people interpret the present. The story summarized goes as following: There is an old man telling a story to his grandson about two competing wolves living inside a man; one is good and the other is bad.
Book review preliminary After read couple chapters of ” When the state trembled”, I decided to write my book review on this book. As everybody knows that Winnipeg General Strike in 1919 is the most important historical event in Canada; in order to help people memorize this event, most books and articles narrate it partly based on authors self bias. By simply read and judge this book, I list some of my opinions about it. Firstly, I really like the day-by-day writing technique that the authors using in the book. It is a brilliant way that presented the six weeks of massive and dramatic general strike and also gives readers a clear timeline for the event, makes this memorial event more vivid and easy to understand.
The book My People the Sioux written by Luther Standing Bear is a revisit to the past by a master storytelling. Written in 1928 by Standing Bear, his story leaves the impression that history is not always told from the same perspective. Luther Standing Bear in English was also known as Plenty Kill,(Ota Kte) by his Sioux family. The book portrays the dramatic and life changing events of his life and the life of the Sioux. The traditional way of life for the Sioux and all Native American was called into question as the westward expansion of the United States unfolded.
For the longest time I have always thought that the Native Americans belief in their religion was almost unreal. I kind of had this assumption that when they were spiritually active in their “Ghost Dances” and rituals that is was almost baloney and I never could take seriously what they did. However, reading Black Elk’s story definitely opened my eyes in ways that I never thought would make me see differently. In the reading Black Elk descriptively paints a valid image of all the several senses he experienced while in his journey, which effectively gave me a different point of view on his beliefs. Black Elk says, “Then we began dancing, and most of the people wailed and cried as they danced, holding hands in a circle; but some of them laughed
The Inuit men have great respect for the women. The role of the women were caring for the children, building igloos with the husband, sewing, and soften the skins of the children’s shoes with their teeth. In Inuit society, the white men that come to conquer the land, and convert the Inuits have a sense of ethnocentrism which id not change through out the book “Top of the world”. The Inuit society is changed by this attack, which the white men changed from their communication with the Inuits.
In fact, there are many cases that white people also become open-minded to ethnic minorities when ethnic flexibly consider both cultures as part of their lives. In “The Man to Send Rain Clouds”, Leon, Ken, and other Native Americans are represented as Indians who are living harmoniously with Father Paul, who is a Christian, by being unbiased about each other’s culture and adapting to it. In the story, for their dead grandfather, they apply the Indians’ traditional funeral ritual in that they “took a piece of string out of [the grandfather’s] pocket and tied a small gray feather in the old [grandfather’s] long white hair” (Silko 49). However, regardless of their traditional cultural heritage, they decide to apply one of Christians’ funeral rituals as well by asking Father Paul, who believes in Christianity. Although this act might be betraying the religion Father Paul has believed in for his entire life, he “shook the container [of holy water] until it was empty” (Silko 52).
The main reason for Lewis and Clark's worry was the Bitterroot Mountains. Lewis knew that if the Shoshone would not trade with his group; the expedition would fail. He decided that Clark and the others needed to know the situation, so Lewis, Cameahwait, and their men journeyed to where Clark and the others had made camp. While the captains and the chiefs began exchanging words through the communication line, Sacagawea realized that not only were these men from her home tribe; but Chief Cameahwait was her brother! The reunion of the two Shoshone people was very heart warming.
Koschebe Osbourne Professor Mulhern English III 20 September 2011 Essay on Native American Literature Native American myth taught members of the different tribe lessons about life. The stories also answered question that individual in the tribe had about their culture and environment. “The world on the turtle back” answered question about the origin of the world, as well as revealed ideas about the relationship between about human and animals. The tale “Coyote and Buffalo” suggest some valuable advice about how to act as a member of the community. The tale “Fox and Coyote and Whale” explored ideas about love and friendship.