The Rise and Fall of the Plains Indians Horse Cultures Pekka Hämäläinen Introduction The thesis in Mr. Hämäläinen’s article is “The horse era began for most Plains Indians with high expectations but soon collapses into a series of unsolvable economic, social, political, and ecological contradictions.” In “The Rise and Fall of the Plains Indian Horse Cultures,” Pekka Hämäläinen discusses how the introduction of horses by European explorers allowed the Plains Indians to transform themselves from obscure foot nomads into an equestrian people. Academia has commonly contrasted the achievements that the horse culture brought to native Americans with the death, disease, and despair that the Europeans brought to America. Hämäläinen proposes that today’s scholars consider the Plains Indian culture “the ultimate anomaly—ecological imperialism working to Indians’ advantage.” Many historians view the introduction of the horse and the Plains Indian culture as a success story. However, until looked into deeper, it is shown that horses in reality, brought “destabilization, dispossession, and destruction.” The horse was a two-edged sword. While it helped to move, hunt, trade, and fight, it led to the destruction of the environment, ruined economies, and uneven social pyramids.
In most of the slave states, the onward march of cotton cultivation placed an enormous pressure on remaining Indian lands. During the 1820’s, other states, like Missouri, forced its Indian population to leave the state. Soon after Missouri forced its Indians to move, other slave states, including Georgia, followed with the policy of expulsion. The Indian Removal Act of 1830, provided for uprooting the Five Civilized Tribes-the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole- with a population of about 60,000 living in North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi. These tribes had made great efforts to become everything republican citizens should be.
The Slaughter of America’s Horses Any one who has wanted to travel to Europe or Asia, or go on a cross-country trip should follow along with one of many horses at local auctions. That s right, the symbols of the Wild West get to travel where most Americans will never go in their lifetime. However, its recommended that traveling and housing accommodation be booked separated from the horses. One morning they get on a trailer, a week or two later they are on plates as delicacies in other countries. For years the slaughter of horses has been a highly profitable, low guided practice and what takes place from the time killer-buyers get hold of them, to the time they become another dish, has been kept from the public.
Gerima is very strategic in the way he transitions from one scent to another which makes the film very unique. He uses music and images as well as background voices. For example, in the beginning of the movie, he uses the sounds of Sankofa’s drums as well as the image of the Virgin Mary, to show Joe’s internal conflict. It is a very difficult technique to use, which shows that Gerima is a very skilled filmmaker. Sankofa shows us that culture can never be preserved if we don’t go back and trace our roots.
Ultimately, The Birds short story by Daphne Du Maurier had the best carried element of suspense at the point in humanity when horror was less prevalent. Intermittently, the plots of The Birds, film and story, touch base rarely and the anecdote reels the viewer in much stronger than the movie. Daphne Du Maurier ushers one through her world with three strengths that Alfred Hitchcock did not have, partially because he was too focused on the plot, and partly because he did not read the piece- he skimmed it. As an artist, one can say that both had strengths and weaknesses, however, The Birds short story planted suspense thoroughly in the mind of the perceiver in ways the movie didn’t. Blatantly, Alfred Hitchcock introduces his movie with a shot of cawing birds, establishing suspense, and then drops the audience on their rears, stranded with a few shots of squawking birds.
The Kiger Mustang came to the New World from Spain in the 1600’s. The word mustang is from the word “mesteno” which means “unclaimed sheep”; it later became the word for wild or unclaimed (BLM). The Kiger Mustang was not really identified in the United States until 1971 when a group of horses were brought into captivity. They were noted, by the people who brought them in, to have strange markings. A man by the name of Ron Harding, a Bureau of Land Management Wild Horse Specialist, tested them and discovered their dominant genes were coded for the dun factor markings.
Life Changing Friendship “Maybe everyone can live beyond what they’re capable of.” A book that can blatantly state that while managing to remain thought provoking and hard to put down has succeeding in getting its message across, making it a very good book. I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak has exceeded at doing so. Through a series of bazaar tasks, the main character, plain old Ed Kennedy realizes he’s not the man he thinks he is- he’s more. Many well developed supporting characters make him who he is: not “the messenger”, but the actual message itself. The behavior of Ed’s friend Marvin Harris- his actions and dialogue, play the biggest role in the transformation of Ed’s character.
These strong sounds (b, g, r, z, t) make the text grandiose and noble, while describing the environment in an auditory manner. The sentences are very abrupt and simple, although they are very descriptive. The author often uses adjectives that are synonyms to describe things more vividly, for instance drenched and drunken and crash and clatter. The style is formal (although the sentences aren’t always that complex) and meant to entertain so therefore the imagery is dramatic and fairly metaphorical (like the blows from a thousand beating hammers and like a sword in the brain). There is no internal dialogue in the text, but the narrator still knows exactly how Wimsey
What you know, you know." (Iago 5.2) 20. "Then must you speak / Of one that loved not wisely, but too well; / Of one not easily jealous, but, being wrought, / Perplexed in the extreme." (Othello 5.2) 21. "This did I fear, but thought he had no weapon; / For he was great of heart."
Out of today’s population in the United States, a mere 0.8% is made up of what is referred to as Native American Decent (Macionis, 2012). One might think that out of the over 300 million people of various backgrounds, races, and ethnicities, this percentage of Native American descendants is a normal percentage. However, when reflecting on the history of the indigenous peoples of the pre-United States, colonial era, it is shocking to learn how they have faired over the last 500 years. Before the discovery of the land of what is now the United States, millions of natives occupied the lands. As the new settlers sought to take over the land, long periods of wars, forced displacement, massacres, imposition of treaties, and imposed hardships.