Buffalo Bill Annotation

Frontiersmen have existed throughout America’s history. According to Turner’s hypothesis, they push forwards for civilization and have shaped America. The stories All the Pretty Horses, The Gift of Cochise, and The Martian are all works of frontier literature. Each in their own way show frontiersmen during different times in America’s history with characters that interact with their respective frontiers in different ways. Through these three books one can see how the core interactions between frontiersmen and the frontiers call out the qualities of frontiersmen stated in Turner’s frontier hypothesis.

In At Last I kill A Buffalo explains one of many daily activities that Natives participated in their natural state of survival. The Lakota, and many other tribes relied heavily on the buffalo for their everyday needs. Not only was the buffalo prepared for food, tools, and clothing, hunting them served as significant turning point, in Standing Bears case of a trial of “the strength of my manhood and honesty.” In their culture the order of nature, was vastly respected and was understood that there was an order that nature followed, and in this they are one with the land and creatures walking on it. “Ever since I could remember my father had been teaching me the things that I should know and

One extreme change for the Indians was the arrival of Anglo-Europeans. Native peoples’ lives were changed at the blink of an eye while new ideas, practices and beliefs were shown to them. The arrival of the Europeans changed the way the Indians viewed their world and manipulated their resources. This new change could be viewed as positive as well as negative, for while some tribes entered into trade relations with the Anglos, others were used as slave labor and all were subject to disease brought on by the European newcomers. However, despite all the advantages and disadvantages, no other introduction changed the lives of the Indians more than firearms and horses. West outlines one of the most important evolutions for Native life and how it represented a new way to harness resources and gain power. In just a few chapters, we are able to see the great advancements the Indians made in hunting and trade due to these new technologies and how they allowed the Cheyennes to rise to a new purpose as the Called Out People.

Popular culture has shaped our understanding and perception of Native American culture. From Disney to literature has given the picture of the “blood thirsty savage” of the beginning colonialism in the new world to the “Noble Savage,” a trait painted by non-native the West (Landsman and Lewis 184) and this has influenced many non native perceptions. What many outsiders do not see is the struggle Native American have on day to day bases. Each generation of Native American is on a struggle to keep their traditions alive, but to function in school and ultimately graduate.

Alexie writes of “Buffalo Bill,” who represents the United States. He also writes “[Native Americans] pawn/their skeletons,” where the skeletons represent culture and sense of self. Alexie also uses irony in the poem to show the unfairness of how Natives were treated. He writes “Charges the Indians five bucks a head to enter.” This quote speaks of how Buffalo Bill takes the Indigenous people’s culture and possessions and then makes a museum of Native American culture, which he then charges Natives money to enter. Alexie’s theme of mistreatment of Native Americans shows, like “Ellis Island,” how some Americans’ dreams are built at the expense of Native Americans. He shows this theme in lines such as “Buffalo Bill/takes everything the Indians have to offer,” showing that America took everything from Native Americans, and then continued to treat them

The buffalo were evidently everything to the Native Americans, hereby causing the defeat of buffalo to fall hand in hand with theirs. The plains Indians used bison as not only food, but in religious rituals, for clothing, for hunting, for shelter, and more. The buffalo were an integral part of the native’s lives. In the aftermath of the increasing killings of bison, the lives of countless Native Americans were destroyed. The said 30-60 million buffalo which had roamed freely upon the Great

“The drink had me snared. I spoke less and drank more, and I became the Indian again; drunken and drooling and reeling, a caricature everyone sought to avoid,”(Wagamese,181). This stomach-turning quote displays what several First Nations thought their identity to be. With this in mind, to begin, “Indian Horse,” by Richard Wagamese is a somber and intriguing novel, with many thought-provoking points within the book. To illustrate this, the book follows a First Nations boy through his youth to adulthood. It is filled with traumatic events, depressing stories and even a few joyful moments. In addition, the novel takes place from around 1960-1980 throughout Ontario. Furthermore, this essay will explore several events and factors which impacted, Saul, the main character's identity.

“The Girl Who Sang to the Buffalo” is a fictional novel based on true events written by the popular American author, Kent Nerburn. Nerburn connected the reader to the ways of the Native Americans and non-Natives. Many non-Natives believe they have a basic understanding of the Native Americans, and what they have dealt with the US government. However, Nerburn provides a different perspective in comprehending the irritation the Native Americans thought of Americans not fully realizing they are heckling the Natives in this manner. Kent Nerburn had some issues with the Natives in not thinking through his decisions when confronting a Native about any questions he may have resulting in mounts of annoyance of the Natives.

North America. A land of acceptance, or so one would think. The story “What You Pawn I Will Redeem” by Sherman Alexie, is one such case wherein a stigma against a group is present that suggests otherwise. The stigma against American Indians stems from a place where European settlers were practicing genocidal behaviours, that marked the beginning of distrust and hate between the two groups. The outcome of this fractured relationship has been a society (the American Indians) that has been destroyed, and is looking to preserve its traditions and not be lost in the rapid change of the modern age. Within this modern age lives Jackson Jackson, a Spokane Indian living in Seattle who stumbles upon a family heirloom in a pawn shop while roaming the streets one day. Jackson Jackson’s quest to retrieve his grandmother’s regalia is one that represents a longing to reconnect with his past and the traditions of his culture that have been lost in the postcolonial world.

Today same the past in the Native American Culture (USA and Canada) the White Buffalo is synonymous of Peace, harmony and balance in their life. Miracle, the Sacred White Female Buffalo Calf, was born on the farm of Master Wolf in Hollywood near Miami City. All the community of Native American are happy, they talk about the new times is coming, and the Prosperity is for all the world, is not a dream is a reality to share every time in the new path. I hope the humanity receive this gift of the Great Spirit with humility and gratitude.

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.

The first part of the book started talking about Pioneers and it said that “The American West was born in the European struggle for empire, its creation shaped especially by the conflict between England and France.” There were Indians, who controlled the Mohawk Valley and St. Lawrence River. Which of the one of the two major approaches to the introduction of the subcontinent. This followed in various wars, and shifting back and forth of each lands peace. They talked a lot, I mean a lot about Pioneers, it talked about Indians, and their effects on the people. This constant danger by the frontier, made it so that their greatest resources were endurance and prolific reproduction. Indians were capturing families, trying to preserve their century-old ways. They started to take over. There were many tribes, including the Sac, Fox, Shawnee, Kickapoo, Miami, Delaware, Wyandot, and Seneca tribes. The British made this worse by continuing to get deep into Indian affairs, even after the 1783 Treaty

American Indians shaped their critique of modern America through their exposure to and experience with “civilized,”

Building a well-working society is never easy to do, especially in the culture that the Native’s lived in. Everybody had a set of skills that worked best in different areas. All men were warriors, they left to hunt and provide food for the tribe. They were very skilled with their hands, as they used bows, arrows, and knives to kill their prey. Men were looked upon by everyone as hunters, and the better hunter one was, the more popular they were to the tribe. A Native by the name, “Saukamappee”, stated that he “grew to be a man, became a skillful and fortunate, and my relations procured me a Wife.” (Calloway, 44). Those very popular wore buffalo robes, such as a well-known Native who was called “Four Bears”

Over the years, the idea of the western frontier of American history has been unjustly and falsely romanticized by the movie, novel, and television industries. People now believe the west to have been populated by gun-slinging cowboys wearing ten gallon hats who rode off on capricious, idealistic adventures. Not only is this perception of the west far from the truth, but no mention of the atrocities of Indian massacre, avarice, and ill-advised, often deceptive, government programs is even present in the average citizen’s understanding of the frontier. This misunderstanding of the west is epitomized by the statement, “Frederick Jackson Turner’s frontier thesis was as real as the myth of the west. The development of the west was, in