Conflict In Cynthia Ann Parker

When she was younger, she watched both of her parents be murdered by Native Americans.

An emphasis on family is one of the central facets of Native American culture. There is a sense of community between Native American. Louise Erdrich, a Chippewa Indian herself, writes a gripping bildungsroman about a thirteen year old boy named Joe who experiences all forms of family on the Native American Reserve where he lives. He learns to deal with the challenges of a blood family, witnesses toxic family relationships, and experiences a family-like love from the members of the community. In her book, The Round House, Louise Erdrich depicts three definitions of the word family and shows how these relationships affect Joe’s development into an adult.

Sacagawea, with her infant son, became the only woman in the small band of about 40 or so men. As they approached more and more west, many Natives had never seen white men before and were ready to protect their land. Lewis was sure the presence of a young woman and a baby would be an obvious sign their purpose was peaceful (Armstrong 65). Over the course of the journey, Sacagawea identifyed many edible berries and roots, which were used as medicine as well. Also, she mented clothes and nursed the sick and injured (Moulton 7).

As young children we are often misled to believe that the stories and movies we are exposed to are presumably based on factual history, but are in reality myths, keeping the truthful, important, and fair facts hidden. Amonute is an accurate example of learning the real events that occurred in a person’s life while the typical myth of Pocahontas saved an Englishmen from being killed by her father. In the beginning of the book we are briefly introduced to Pocahontas, the Powhatan people and the English colonists. As the book continues we follow Pocahontas when she is kidnapped, her married life, and her trip to London where she got sick because of foreign illnesses and died. Camilla Townsends “Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma” wants Pocahontas’ true story to unfold because she is worthy of respect for her bravery and sacrifice and because “everyone subverted her life to satisfy their own needs to believe that the Indians loved and admired them” (Townsend, pg. xi). I also believe that the author was trying to argue that even though the Englishmen believed that the Native Americans were uncivilized and lived like savages, that instead they were wise people.

No other American woman in history has had more statues made in her honor than Sacagawea and for good cause. She was both a vital and crucial part of Lewis and Clark’s expedition. Her help allowed Lewis and Clark to successfully navigate through the west. Even though many people today just see her as a ‘guide’, she was much more than that. Despite going through the separation from her tribe, being sold as a child, sickness, and having to raise a son, she still made huge contributions to Lewis and Clark’s expedition. Her bravery, knowledge of the land, and skills as an interpreter all contributed greatly to the success of the expedition. Without her help, who knows if Lewis and Clark would have ever completed their

Sacagawea was one of the two native Americans that went on the Lewis and Clark expedition. Sacagawea was 16 when she went on the expedition. She was only 20 when she died so she didn’t live that long. Imagine how early that would be today! Sacagawea has many nicknames such as Jamie and Julia. Sacagawea was kidnapped at age twelve by the Hidatsa Indians along with some other women, she must have been very scared. On the trip she had a son named Jean Baptiste Charbonneau when she was 16, he was born on February 11 in 1805. Lewis helped with the delivery of Jean. One way that this affected the trip is it shows that the travelers came in peace. Jean was like a big sign that said: We don’t want to fight! Sacagawea’s husband is Toussaint Charbonneau.

Lives for Native Americans on reservations have never quite been easy. There are many struggles that most outsiders are completely oblivious about. In her book The Roundhouse, Louise Erdrich brings those problems to light. She gives her readers a feel of what it is like to be Native American by illustrating the struggles through the life of Joe, a 13-year-old Native American boy living on a North Dakota reservation. This book explores an avenue of advocacy against social injustices. The most observable plight Joe suffers is figuring out how to deal with the injustice acted against his mother, which has caused strife within his entire family and within

An important factor in shaping Jeannette was being born in Missoula, Montana. It is important to this report to understand the community where Jeannette grew up. It was a factor in the formation of her worldviews. John and Olive settled in a beautiful area of the Missoula valley called Grant Creek. Even to today, Grant Creek is a lush, tranquil setting that has a quiet sense of Jeannette 's world 130 years ago. Again, Lewis and Clark had visited the Missoula valley only 75 years before Jeannette was born. It was a vibrant, diverse community. John Rankin was amongst its first settlers and treated the local Native Americans as he would any other neighbor.

In ‘Lucy’ the character Lucy, an immigrant girl, leaves her home in the West Indies to come to America in order to reinvent herself and to discover her own identity. Her struggles for personal freedom and independence would require her complete disconnection from her family especially her mother. To do so, Lucy not only had to let go of her former identity, but she also has to void herself of the self-destruction and loneliness. Lucy’s liberation from the past is the key element to her finding her new self. That too will require her to mentally recolonized her past and present in a way she feels comfortable. The novel places Lucy at a cross road of culture and identities Antiguan and American. Upon arrival to America to work as an au pair for an

    Leslie Marmon Silko is a Native American from New Mexico and is part of the Laguna tribe.  She received a MacArthur "genius" award and was considered one of the 135 most significant women writers ever.  Her home state has named her a living cultural treasure.  (Jaskoski, 1)  Her well-known novel Ceremony follows a half-breed named Tayo through his realization and healing process that he desperately needs when he returns from the horrors of World War II.  This is a process that takes him back to the history of his culture.

Tapahonso’s novel is filled with poems and short stories that encompass her Native American tribe the Navajos. As you follow along the journey she takes you, you are able to learn about the importance of a child’s first laugh, the creation of her people, and even how in “Tune Up” children have to come home in order to feel at peace with themselves, their lives, and their culture. “The port presents her memories— ‘long time ago stories,’ as she calls them—as explanations of the Dine way of life to her grandchildren (Vasquez).” This novel is written more for her family and tribe then it is for an outsider. However, as a reader you feel that you are invited into a private world that rarely gets seen.

Townsend starts off the book with a background to the Native American people. She describes Pocahontas’s father’s role in their lives and how Powhatan came to be the ruler of their people. Townsend writes about how the Spanish tried to take over first and how the kidnaping of Luis was a huge factor in the relationship between the Spanish and the Native Americans and how it caused the mistrust between the Natives and the English.

Camilla Townsend also adds in her historical writing that if we focus on the rescue story of John Smith we lose sight of what is really important, which is the significance of Pocahontas. She was more than just the daughter of a tribe leader he met, her marriage to John Rolfe proved diplomacy and powerful interactions among the natives and English people.

February 10, 1675 was a sorrowful day for Mary Rowlandson’s hometown (Lancaster). Indians came and destroyed their town showing no remorse. Many were killed and wounded. Some were taken captive. Among those captive is a women named Mary Rowlandson. Throughout her captivity she kept a journal of all her removals and interactions she had with the Indians.

In the end she decides to tell her family that she was kidnapped by Navajo people, but she is sad her grandfather is not alive to hear her story because it was the Yellow Woman stories he liked to tell best.