1. Fifty Miles From Tomorrow, Written By Alaskan Democratic

In American Indian Stories, University of Nebraska Press Lincoln and London edition, the author, Zitkala-Sa, tries to tell stories that depicted life growing up on a reservation. Her stories showed how Native Americans reacted to the white man’s ways of running the land and changing the life of Indians. “Zitkala-Sa was one of the early Indian writers to record tribal legends and tales from oral tradition” (back cover) is a great way to show that the author’s stories were based upon actual events in her life as a Dakota Sioux Indian. This essay will describe and analyze Native American life as described by Zitkala-Sa’s American Indian Stories, it will relate to Native Americans and their interactions with American societies, it will

“The Inconvenient Indian” speaks to a general audience and particularly to US and Canada. The book is organized into chapters and each chapter refers to a variety of themes. Some of these themes are history, culture, politics, and laws. By incorporating all these themes,

In American Indian life, they believe their life is interconnected with the world, nature, and other people. The idea of a peoplehood matrix runs deep in Indian culture, in this essay the Cherokee, which is the holistic view of sacred history, language, ceremony, and homeland together. This holistic model shapes the life of the American Indians and how their sense of being and relationship to their history is strong and extremely valuable to them. This essay will try to explain how each aspect of the peoplehood matrix is important and interconnected to each other and the life of the Native Americans.

The reading, “We Must Farm to Enable us to Live” explores the many hardships the Plains Cree encountered with agriculture on the reserves, in which they were forced to live on. One of the first misconceptions the reading looks at is how “Nineteenth century European observers tended to see the Great Plains as a timeless land, as a place without history, its

Clearing the Plains, by James Daschuk, provides a rich account of the political, ecological, and economic systems that have led to catastrophes between non-Indigenous Canadians and the Indigenous people of the Plains. The author addresses untruths in the existing literature that attributes the dangerous position of Aboriginal peoples in Canada to cultural characteristics of Indigenous peoples themselves. The author describes the history of Aboriginal peoples as one characterized by struggle in the face of infectious diseases, starvation, suppression, and displacement by settler populations. This compelling book contains nine chapters, each exploring a theme that reveals the historical and ecological experiences that procreated the present dilemma

In A Short History of Indians in Canada, Thomas King explores, for the most part, the ill-treatment of Native Indians in Canada. Two satires by the names of Coyote and the Enemy Aliens and Tidings of Comfort and Joy, focus on the arrogance of the White men and how their actions affected the society of Native Indians. Specifically, this essay discusses how their actions contributed to the dehumanization of Native Indians. This concept of Dehumanization is explored through the hypocrisy on what is legal and illegal according to the White men, the Native Indians enslaved and treated like wild animals and reduced to being mere possessions of their White ‘masters’.

Across Canada and the United States there are many First Nations languages which are a part of the Algonquian language family, all of which with varying states of health. Although these languages share many characteristics of the Algonquian language family, the cultures, systems of beliefs, and geographic location of their respective Nations differentiate them. In being shaped by the landscape, cultures, and spirituality of the First Nations, the language brings the speakers closer to their land and traditions while reaffirming their identity as First Peoples. Using the Blackfoot Nation to further explore this concept, this paper will show that while language threads together First Nations culture, spirituality,

Thomas King’s The Inconvenient Indian tells the story of Indigenous people in Canada and the United States, it challenges the narrative on how Indigenous history is taught and explains why Indigenous people continue to feel frustrated. King’s seeks to educate the reader as he provides a detailed accounts of the horrific massacres Indigenous people endured, yet he simultaneously inserts humorous moments which balances out the depressing content and enhances his story. The books highlights the neglect and assimilation that Indigenous were subjected to and how their survival was seen as an inconvenience to western culture. King directs his message at a Euro-centric audience to offer an accurate explanation of Indigenous culture and

Slotkin illustrates the emergence by 1890 of a myth that was redefined to help Americans answer the misperception and conflict of the industrialization and grand extension. In The Fatal Environment, Richard Slotkin proves in what way the myth of frontier growth and defeat of the Native Americans helped to validate the progression of Americas final stand as a symbol for whatever Americans feared might occurred if the frontier were to be closed, and the "violent" part be allowable to rule the "civilized," Slotkin displays the rise by 1890 of a fable redefined to support Americans answer to the misunderstanding and contention of industrialization and grand extension. Sweeney is comparing The Fatal Environment to The Morning of a New Day. He argues that the reason why Farny’s “Morning of a New Day” attract few imitators is because of the ambivalent image of the fatal environment within it.

It is also this depressing lost of Native Americans’ culture that has motivated them to never stop trying to return home. However, in the memory of the speaker’s dad, these Native Americans were just “swollen bellies of salmon coming back to a river that wasn’t there” (CR 123). Salmon have the nature of returning back to the place, where they were born in, to reproduce. Comparing the Native Americans to salmon, the author identifies the importance of their land to their nature. That is, losing the land is the same as losing their reproduction. Therefore, taking the land away for the modern developments, the western culture has ultimately become the nightmare for the Native Americans.

In Jace Weaver’s essay, “That the People Might Live,” he introduces the word, “communitism.” According to Weaver, the word was formed from “a combination of the words ‘community’ and activism’”(43). In a sense, the word can be defined by Native American authors as the means to argue for their sense of place and culture that they once held prior to the disruption of colonial settlers. Through literature, Native American authors have found the ability to dispose of their outside view predicate, or view of how others define them, in order to produce a vast anthology of works that represent their cultural identity. Native American authors, in essence, share a responsibility to not only their own tribes, but the tribes of other Native Americans, to share and document their society as it once was. In the books that we have read thus far, this sense of communitism can be found throughout each as they discuss the same themes or actions that occurred in their tribes prior to the disruption of their natural environments and ways of living.

The great state of Alaska is the forty-ninth state in America. There is an array of climates and an even larger variation of indigenous people groups. The land varies from huge mountains to flat tundras to thick forests. The jobs are largely determined by the environment. I was very fortunate to be born and consider it a privilege to share my story with people. Alaska has so many more wonderful things that many people don’t know. It’s sort of like the state of many secrets because people from the continental US assume that all Alaskans live in igloos and have polar bears as pets.

Imagine going to find gold and ones you find then the next day it’s gone. In Yukon Territory 1897 It tells you that how people were looking for gold and how they got there. In the passage From A Woman Who Went to Alaska it talks about how people had to get an license and how you must tell the office of the state.

Much of Native Philosophy, both the physical and ethical side are portrayed and preserved through oral history. In this paper I will lie out and explain the aspects of the philosophies outlined in the articles of our course pack. The course pack is made up of eight articles as well as a pre-face, by different authors who in depth explain the fundamentals of Native Philosophy. This paper will serve as a condensed version, fitting and explaining the main points of the philosophy. I have broken down the articles and grouped them based on Blackfoot and plain Indian Views, Navaho views and ethics, as well as Ethics and concept of Justice.

In Jack London’s “To Build A Fire”, a man battles the harsh environment of Alaska in an attempt to reach his newly bought plot of land.