From a Native Daughter

trying to make. He talked about his favorite diving spots that he discovered while traveling around California. Seeing this I couldn’t necessarily correlate this to the reading. In the reading “Notes from a Native Daughter” by Joan Didion, an important note that Didion made was about how people from the East Coast, after visiting California, thought that they understood what the real California was, but in reality they didn’t, they were barely getting to know what California was really about (Didion)

Joan Didion 's article Notes From A Native Daughter and Ernesto Galarza 's piece Barrio Boy both talk a lot about how life was like in Sacramento while they were growing up. In Ernesto Galarza 's article, he writes about living in lower Sacramento and Didion 's essay, talks about life in a different area of Sacramento, California. Ernesto Galarza 's Sacramento is filled with a lot of Mexican and other Latin American people living in a particular area of the city. Barrio Boy 's Sacramento took place

1. The main idea of Sawaquat’s essay is the importance of realizing your identity. Growing up in Michigan deprived Sawaquat of his Native American heritage. What little he knew about his Ottawa ancestors was of stereotypes such as when he attended a powwow only to find out that white people were the attendees (paragraph 10). Sawaquat also talks about his time in the army and how in order to fit in with his fellow white soldiers he had to act like them which further diminished his identity (paragraph

Legends Of The Native Americans Native Americans believe that all living things are important. They think living things are a main creditor as to why Native Americans are existing today. The authors of “The Earth On Turtle's Back” and “When Grizzlies Walked Upright” both have retold legends on what the Native Americans believed. “The Earth On Turtle's Back” and “When Grizzlies Walked Upright” both have some differences, but mostly are similar. “The Earth On Turtle’s Back” and “When Grizzlies Walked

In 1810, a desperate father poses as a convict on a prison ship to find his young daughter who was transported to Australia to work in a factory. BRIEF SYNOPSIS: Between 1787 and 1868 convicts from Britain were transported to a little known island called Australia. Many of the men and women were sent for petty crimes. In present day Australia, RITA BELL (60’s) is eager to tell a journalist, RICHARD STANTON, the true story about a man named JAMES RAMSEY. Richard challenges Rita that there’s no

Barker write the lines of Pocahontas as she talks to Nima, her attendant about not being a Native anymore in the lines: “O Nima! I will use my bow no longer; I go out to the wood, and my heart is light; but while my arrow flies, I sorrow; and when the bird drops through the branches, tears come into mine eyes. I will no longer use my bow” (1.3.124). In this scene, Pocahontas made an appearance as she came from the woods with a bow and arrow. She was carrying a red bird. Pocahontas feels sad when she

“Three Generations of Native American’s Birth Experience” by Joy Harjo and “Black Mountatin, 1977” by Donald Antrim. In “Black Mountain, 1977”, the story is about a grandson and grandfather that try to keep a relationship even when the grandfather’s daughter doesn’t want them to have a relationship. The grandson would stay with his grandparents and found a way to keep their relationship strong even with some of the problems that happened along the way. In “Three Generations of Native American Women’s

Wendy Red Star Native American Artist Wendy Red Star was raised on the Crow reservation in Montana. She is both of Native and Irish decent. Her mother, who is Irish, encouraged her to pursue and understand the Crow culture. Her father and uncle were both artists and encouraged her to pursue her art dreams. Her family background and life experiences are her biggest inspiration and bring a unique perspective to her artwork. She attended Montana State University and later University of California

evidence from journals and diaries of the Englishman to gain facts and stories of what happened. Since there are no records from the Natives around this time period, Townsend is tasked with using context clues from those English sources to gain their perspective. Multiple encounters come from John Smith’s journal, however, his sources have been argued to be unreliable. She is able to explain how the Natives felt of the English culture being forced upon them and the lifestyle changes the Natives overcame

fight with the English and be attacked. Powhatan had a daughter named Pocahontas who married an English settler, John Rolfe. He therefore, had a connection to the settlers and didn’t see them in a bad light because his daughter had defended the settlers. Powhatan was the first leader that had to encounter the English so because of that, he had hopes that they would get along and he didn’t see what they had planned for the land and the Natives. After Powhatans death, his brother, Openkankanough, became