Frank Vlasak and the Beginnings of Prague, Oklahoma The article entitled "Frank Vlasak and the Beginnings of Prague, Oklahoma", explains how Frank Vlasak evolves to a very powerful leader in the town that is Prague, Oklahoma, while all at the same time, Vlasak never loses his self and personality or his authority within his own cultural community, that is, a Czech immigrant from Bohemia . Frank Vlasak had much ascendancy and advantage in his culture group and he never abandoned himself from the non-Czech commonality. The thesis of “Frank Vlasak and the Beginnings of Prague, Oklahoma” By Viles Slive is explaining exactly how Vlasak led the Prague Czechs in rapid adaptations with the preponderance population of non-Czech, native-born whites proved beneficial to both parties. Slive goes into more details about exactly how Frank Vlasak accomplished this, and, ultimately, became one of the most important commoners of the new Oklahoma town while maintaining his personal and true identity of a Czech and his effective position within his own ethnic group. First off, Slive states that when the gun sounded for the start of the land run on September 22nd, 1891, Czechs who …show more content…
Smith, Arkansas through Indian Territory and travels into Oklahoma Territory to take part in the largely expanding towns of central Oklahoma, most importantly, the Guthrie and Oklahoma City area. Anton Simek and Vencl Kozak, two Bohemian immigrants, who had recently both purchased the domicile of the elderly woman Eva Barta agreed to sell part of her property to the railroad company. Josephine Barta decided to name the town “Praha” because she had originally grown up in the town of Praha, Bohemia. After hearing of Josephine’s decision, Frank Vlasak decided to visit his cohort settler and persuaded Josephine to Americanize the name to
Initial picture of a man detached from the world that surrounds him-shows immigrant isolation but also Feliks strength of character.
The main ideas of chapter one was the conquest and exploration of the early America’s by the spaniards. Throughout the chapter, it explains the difficulties that the spanish explorers faced when attempting to conquer new lands. The primary problem the explorers faced was with the current inhabitants of the lands they wanted to conquer, especially with the cultural differences between populations. On article that exemplifies the cultural differences between the Native Americans and the Spanish Explorers is the third-person biographical narrative called “The Collision of Cultures.” The narrative gives the reader insight on what the indians and the explorers pre-judgement of one another, based off of what the parties believed with their religion and moral. This article’s reader would be
Spiegelman has presented his father’s memoirs in a creative way by portraying racial groups as animals and by making the story into a graphic novel. By presenting it in comic form, Art Spiegelman is able to better capture the emotions of those in the graphic novel. Not a dedication in the conventional sense, the book eternalizes the memoirs of Vladek and those around him.
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
In this paper I will discuss the history of the Cherokee Indians in the United States. First by describing the tribes pre-Columbian history to include the settlement dates and known cultural details. Then a brief description of the cultural and religious beliefs of the tribe will be given, as well as the tribe’s history after contact with settlers. Finally discussing John Ross, who he was and how he affected the Cherokee Indians.
The different lives and experiences of William Bradford, John Smith, and Olaudah Equiano show how there are many ways to be adapted to a new world. There were many struggles that each of them faced, and each had different motives when writing their experiences. In some way, there are all connected to one another, with some similarities, but there are differences also.
Immigrants coming to America in the late 1800’s had an idea of what it might be like in the land of opportunity, but the harsh reality of the living conditions during this time only became apparent when they reached the shore. In Thomas Bell’s novel, Out of This Furnace, he describes the hardships Slovak immigrants faced throughout generations living in the industrial towns. Through Bell’s novel he clearly depicts the mindsets of each generation and how they changed their attitudes and thinking to better succeed and escape poverty.
Imagine living in a town that was once thriving with successful businesses to a community that barely exist. As you travel down the deserted roads of your community you are surrounded by boarded up memorable buildings, deteriorating homes, and empty storefronts. The water tower that stands tall for all to see is now covered by rust. While the streets in which you are traveling on show signs of frequent patchwork in an effort to salvage the road. As you pass by what once was your favorite mom and pop’s restaurant you began to reminisce on the time you spent there with loved ones. This has become the story of residents in Boley, Oklahoma; one of the first all black towns in the state.
While many cannot picture Smith in any context other than with Pocahontas, he had a very active life before he even met her. As stated by Woolf, prior to even meeting Pocahontas Smith had been “in an army fighting the Ottoman Turks in central Europe, during which he went through several escapes, was seriously wounded, taken into slavery, after which he murdered his slave-master and escaped, along with being shipwrecked twice.”1 All of these exploits happened before Smith ended up in Virginia at the Jamestown colony, and met Pocahontas, the narrative of which most Americans are intimately familiar with or so they think.
The American desire to culturally assimilate Native American people into establishing American customs went down in history during the 1700s. Famous author Zitkala-Sa, tells her brave experience of Americanization as a child through a series of stories in “Impressions of an Indian Childhood.” Zitkala-Sa, described her journey into an American missionary where they cleansed her of her identity. In “Impressions of an Indian Childhood,” Zitkala-Sa uses imagery in order to convey the cruel nature of early American cultural transformation among Indian individuals.
In contrast to D’Ortega, Lina, a captured Native American, values courage and commitment to the community. To Lina, Vaark’s sumptuous plantation represents everything negative the European
the need to look nonconformist" (154). Surely Josef's decision to become an emigre--to preserve his individuality abroad--is the actual nonconformity. Communism and capitalism have clearly arrived at some sort of truce, though, over that "magnificently stupid T-shirt" that boasts "KAFKA WAS BORN IN PRAGUE" (100). The achievement of one from the homeland is an achievement for all; buy a shirt and
It is easy to see that current events and issues of the world around them have had an impact on authors and what they have written from the stories in this time period. The Native American authors wrote stories describing life during and after white man came to America. We read Oratory’s by two Native American’s COCHISE and CHARLOT. They gave heart-wrenching speeches, giving great details into the history of the tribes and the devastating effect the white man had on them. Author Zitkala Sa gave us a powerful interpretation of her life as a Indian and how the white’s coming to America affected her life.
Dvorak grew up around much political discussion within his father’s Inn, however he was never interested in politics, he was more interested in crops just as the other sensible folk in his village. When Dvorak
The high taxes and cost of living make it very difficult for middle- class Americans to get by and the government continues to take, and take, and take leaving some families with nothing, creating hostile feelings such as frustration and anger among citizens. During American history, there has always been some form of greed from the government, so much at times causing many wars and destruction. Slemhakkah, known as Charlot, who was the Chief of the Kalispel band of Flathead Indians, felt the same frustration and anger toward the government in 1876, when the federal government required that Montana Indians residing on reservations pay taxes. Charlot was angry with the white people’s way, the greed, as well as the unfair and unjust destruction that the white man brought upon the land. He expressed his views in a powerful speech titled, He has filled graves with our bones, that was published on the Western Frontier. Charlot speaks to his “people,” with a tone of anger and worry. The stance that he took to inform his people and express the worries he had, is very powerful, and justifiable. He was a leader, respected among his people, stayed true as his word and had a sincerity within ethos, pathos, logos appeals, throughout his speech.