Comparison Of Fanon And Lear In Radical Hope

When thinking about relevant theories to the Native American conflict, there are a few that can be applied in a few different ways to help explain the various aspects of this conflict. Three of the theories discussed in this course – primordialist theory, social construction theory, and psychological theories - contain aspects that are applicable to this Native American conflict, while other theories do a poor job of explaining the conflict. On the other hand, one theory from this course – instrumentalism – is not useful in explaining the conflict.

The Lakota, an Indian group of the Great Plains, established their community in the Black Hills in the late eighteenth century (9). This group is an example of an Indian community that got severely oppressed through imperialistic American actions and policy, as the Americans failed to recognize the Lakota’s sovereignty and ownership of the Black Hills. Jeffrey Ostler, author of The Lakotas and the Black Hills: The Struggle for Sacred Ground, shows that the Lakota exemplified the trends and subsequent challenges that Indians faced in America. These challenges included the plurality of groups, a shared colonial experience, dynamic change, external structural forces, and historical agency.

History is relevant and significant to each and every individual. Our ancestors, our culture, our laws, our earth... all of these finite factors have contributed to the posterity of human nature from the macro levels to the micro levels. In the Native American culture specifically, history is exceptionally influential, it burrows itself in the minds of individuals in many ways, consciously and unconsciously. Louise Erdrich and her novel, Plague of Doves, portrays the real and potent effects of historical context on the descendants of Native Americans. In this paper I will be comparing Plague of Doves to another traumatic historical event, the Sand Creek Massacre, and unravel in a transparent way the relationship between history and behavior.

The book “Lakota Woman,” is an autobiography that depicts Mary Crow Dog and Indians’ Lives. Because I only had a limited knowledge on Indians, the book was full of surprising incidents. Moreover, she starts out her story by describing how her Indian friends died in miserable and unjustifiable ways. After reading first few pages, I was able to tell that Indians were mistreated in the same manners as African-Americans by whites. The only facts that make it look worse are, Indians got their land stolen and prejudice and inequality for them still exists.

Is it Red Face vs. White Face, or Red faces and White faces? Chief Seattle, in this oration to Governor Stevens, discusses the comparatives and differences between these two conglomerations of people using rhetoric devices such as similes, concession, repetition, and tone. Through the use of these devices, Chief Seattle sets in his purposes of both warning the White Faces that although they hold the current power, and although the Native Americans want to live as one, that they have some power as well, and show his fellow brothers and sisters that although they may be weak now, not only in numbers but in strength, that they have power and might and the ability to eventually seek revenge on those who do them injustice.

The people of the Laguna Pueblo reservation had a respect for the land they lived on. Exhibiting the beliefs of most Native American tribes, they always hunted in certain places and knew the balance of the earth. When other people, the “white people” (page 172), started to overtake the land, they knew they would not be able to stop them from demolishing both the land and the animals that lived there. This shows the evolution of the Native American culture and life as other settlers with differing beliefs found the lands.

This book is the story of Thomas Yellowtail, a religious leader, and a “pivotal figure in Crow tribal life”. In his youth, Yellowtail lived alongside great men who have tasted the freedom of the days before the reservations life, and were familiar with the sacred ways. Thomas Yellowtail was a Crow healer and also a top religious figure in the Sun Dance, which was the most important part of the Plains Indian spirituality. Yellowtail describes the social problems in reservations, and explains how alcoholism, drug abuse, and poverty were manifested by declining values (pg.28). By trading their daily contact with the nature and prayer, for the modern day fast pace, and things like television, Yellowtail suggests that Indians have become out of

This book is about the removal of Native American’s in the 1830’s by the government. The Indian Removal Act was approved by Andrew Jackson, and was brutally forced onto all eastern native American tribes. The Indians were forced to move out west and away from the land where they were raised. Horrific times in U.S. but beautiful observations of nature and the Indians interesting rituals were made by Jahoda. Influential, disheartening, and terrible tale of the American Indian removal from east to west. Jahoda points out the senselessness of removing the Indians from their native land and portrays Jackson as being ruthless and greedy. Specifically, this book goes into detail of everything they were put through by the white men. Many Indians died due to the harsh conditions, starvation, diseases contracted from the white men, and the violence from fighting. The Red Eagle incident was bringing in the gradual manipulation and removal of the native tribes because the Indians weren't united: the removal and relocation was made easier because of this. The exile to their new lands were brought on with fighting and death with little remorse by the military. The false promises and deception; the fighting among tribes contributed to the extermination. There were so few American’s that were white that truly wanted to help

In this original study, Elizabeth A. Fenn challenges researchers of Native American history to reevaluate the ways that we see and compose such history. All the way, Fenn inundates perusers in an entirely Native world particularly, the Mandan people groups of present-day North Dakota where everything from the names of the seasons to the spaces the Mandan possessed or adored are remade from the Mandan point of view. Some of the most important things the Mandan did are influence the people around them, which customs would be beneficial to my life, and applying Mandan way to my life.

Native American removal from the southern portion of the United States was no doubt a tragic and unjust venture that resulted in many Natives losing their homelands. Interestingly, when this forced move is talked about in American history, Natives are still painted in the artificial picture of savage, uncivilized beings according to the American perception. However, these tribes that were forced to move from their homelands in order to make way for white Americans were far from uncivilized even in the American standard. These tribes are what is called the “five civilized tribes” and each one had adopted the “white man’s way of living”. These tribes were the Choctaw, Chicksaw, Creek, Seminole, and Cherokee and each had morphed into the new American society set up by whites in their own unique ways. Despite each

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 colonization of civilizations has changed the world’s history forever. From the French, Spaniard, and down to the English, have changed cultures, traditions, religions, and livelihoods of other societies. The Native Americans, for example, were one of the many civilizations that were conquered by the English. The result was their ways of life based on nature changed into the more “civilized” ways of the colonists of the English people. Many Native Americans have lost their old ways and were pulled into the new “civilized” ways. Today only a small amount of Native American nations or tribes exist in remote areas surviving following their traditions. In the book Ceremony, a story of a man named

In the nonfiction novel Saga of the Sioux, there are two major conflicts. They are Man vs. Nature and Man vs. Society. “Crazy Horse and the others managed to keep just out of range as the Bluecoats entered the Peno Creek Valley. The soldiers shouted with satisfaction” is a good example of how the Native Americans were nonstop being hunted by the soldiers, as well as being pushed off of their land. “The Santee were forced to give up their traditional way of life and learn how to farm like the white men” is a great example of how the Natives were required to take on the customs of white men, having to abandon their original way of life. “Because of heavy snow and severe winter weather, many bands did not receive the news by the deadline” explains how the Native’s were troubled by nature. This held their expedition back, and resulted in them losing many men. “Rumors began to fly among the white settlements that immense amounts of gold were hidden in Paha Safa, or the Black Hills” also shows how rumors are egging people on to come to the Black Hills, the Hills that belong to the Natives, and gather

Characters in the story experience all throughout the unraveling of the plot a moment in which they are confronted with a decision between preserving tradition or accepting change. In the story, as european colonization became tangible for them, many changes took place such as the introduction of a new religion. Now the tribes had no option but to alter their way of living around the new settlers so that conflict won't take place. As for the new religion, many people chose to embrace it for the benefits it provided to those less fortunate, but for those who were highly admired in their tribes, the process was more distressing for it threaten their style of living in a more austere way. One of the major struggles that are depicted in the story is the question of: “How should we respond to change?”, which thereby brings about more thoughts to the surface. Such as ideas that suggest whether we should embrace change and adapt or otherwise resist it; Achebe states that these decisions are inescapable for change is an ineluctable part of

The Native American voice typically speaks with a sense of perseverant and unyielding spirit. In contrast to this commonality, the last pronounced chief of the Crow nation, Plenty Coup, reflected on life near his death and said, “When the buffalo went away the hearts of my people fell to the ground…and they could not lift them up again. After this nothing happened” (2). Plenty Coup’s statement earns a special distinction, in that he suggested that life met a terminus at this point in time. This compelling statement lays the foundation for Johnathan Lear’s exploration into the human condition, as framed in the situational context of a people whose cultural cornerstones have been removed. In analysis of Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation, Lear ultimately begs the question: How should one cope with the possibility that one’s culture may dissolve? Giving voice to Plenty Coup and the Crow People Lear contends that, “a traditional form of life ended” (8), which is the broad thesis for the work in its entirety.