The Mission is a movie that portrays the events that surround the implementation of the Treaty of Madrid in 1750. This treaty allowed the Portuguese to invade farther west in South America, and therefore take over the Jesuit missions land and capture the aboriginals and enslave them. The Jesuit missions goal was to convert the Aboriginals into Catholics and make them more knowledgeable about the outside world. The Mission depicts this situation accurately, by telling the story of a Spanish Jesuit priest named Father Gabriel. Father Gabriel goes into the wilderness of South America to start a mission and convert the Guarani Indians into Catholics, after the previous priest was attacked by them and nailed to a cross and thrown into the river
For a while he worked for the government trying to help with Indian right, and settlement separation. The government was trying to take the land in the Black Hills from them for mining, but that land was sacred to the Indians. The motivation of the movie is the showing of Eastman’s childhood and him growing up to do everything he can to help the Indian tribes. This movie relates to the course because it shows the English settlers claiming this land to be their own when obviously there were already people here, and we covered people settling in the United Stated and the Indian Laws and Territories. Charles Eastman: Main Character, He was a Doctor who was once part of the Sioux Indian tribe.
Precis: The Poisonwood Bible is a 658-page novel written by American author Barbara Kingsolver in 1999. The novel sets a stage of a missionary father, Nathan Price, that brings his family to Africa during the 1960's. Nathan is on a mission to spread Christianity and convert American customs to everyday African customs. Kingsolver shows a parallel in how a family is able to be torn apart by conflict and customs to actual occurrences of this in real life. Is the expense of an innocent life worth the becoming wealthy from diamonds?
Seven Years War – - The final stage of a century long battle fought between the British and the French. The British ended up winning the war and as a result France’s political power in North America was, for the most part, over. It meant the end of New France. Acadia - a colony in the eastern part of Canada that included Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, and New Brunswick. Jesuit - - a group of French Catholic missionaries that came to North America and wanted to convert the Aboriginals to their religion.
The English try to mingle with the natives but in the end they end up fighting. The English fight the Powhatan Tribe and end up killing a lot of them. This movie shows the way settlers and explorers were in the exploration age. The European countries would go to the “New World” and already act like they have owned it forever. The lust for gold drove the English to the Americas and to set up colonies.
Clorinda Matto’s Birds without a Nest: a Story of Indian Life and Priestly Oppression in Peru, is an attempt to educate the reader of the treatment in which the indigenous population of the Andes were subjected to near the end of the nineteenth century. In essence, Matto was creating a platform for the support of the native population during a time when they were still under oppressive control of the social hierarchy of Peruvian elites. Matto succeeds in reaching reader’s, as well as character’s, sentiments as to the plight of an indigenous family oppressed by the town’s controlling triumvirate, the governor, the priest, and the judge. Matto’s story begins in the fictional town of Kiliac, where there is a large population of indigenous peoples in which they form the majority of the population. From the beginning, the reader is presented with the injustices that the indigenous
Charlemagne did for the good of Christian Europe, and to do that good, he and his family would have to make personal sacrifices, such as when he put his two youngest sons in separate kingdoms from each other and from the rest of the family. Another example. When the king was planning which one of his older sons would rule his empire after he died he decided it would be his son Carl because he did not want oldest son Pepin to rule because of his hunchback, another example. When Charlemagne went to go find the Saxons that had killed his best knights and when he found them he had to decide whether or not to execution them for their actions, but when he thought about it he decided to execution for their action because that was justice. Catholics who are descended from families of Europe must be grateful to Charlemagne.
Exploration, discovery, and hardships can simply summarize expansion from Europe to the “New World.” Explorers from both Spain and England came over to the new land, and they established homes and encountered several new and difficult situations. The Spanish settled lower into South America, whilst the British opted for the East Coast of North America. Both European countries differed in cultures and beliefs, yet both desired more land. What is even more, they were both culturally and economically affected by the Indians of the Americas because of their different approaches to the Indians. The Spanish aspired to conquer the Indians and their land and they forced their religion onto the Indians.
Another song written by Bob Marley is the “Buffalo Soldier”. It talks about these soldiers, how they were segregated fighters during the American campaign to get rid of the "Indians" so that "civilized" white people could gain the lands used by Native Americans. It talks about how these people were struggling for survival and what choices they have to make in order to live. For me, “said he was fighting on arrival, fighting for survival” is a really powerful line because it shows the how they were used by the white man to destroy the Native people and take the land, because that was the only way to escape slavery. I really think their life before is very hard.
The Role of Purpose in Life in Graham Greene’s “The Power and the Glory” Graham Greene, born in 1904, was a British novelist who survived an unhappy childhood and a suicide attempt. His conversion to Catholicism in 1926 most likely stemmed from his firm belief that evil existed in the world. Many of Greene’s works focus on religious themes with the main protagonist being of dubious character and far from the idealized picture we have of the archetypical hero (Kopper 5-6) Greene was extremely interested in politics and political movements, so he traveled to Mexico in 1938 to investigate the religious persecution that had taken place under President Calles and Governor Canabal (x). Research in this area shows that Latin American countries have been dealing with religious persecution for more than 6 decades with Penny Lernoux chronicling various movements well into the mid and late 1970’s in her book Cry of the People: United States Involvement in the Rise of Fascism, Torture, and Murder and the Persecution of the Catholic Church in Latin America. Pope Pius XI’s Acerba Animi – On Persecution of the Church in Mexico – 29 September 1932 also validates the persecution activities represented in The Power and the Glory.