How Does Miranda's Bad Indians Reflect The Lives Of Native Americans

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

Have you ever heard of the Cherokee Indians? Sure you have! Just as a reminder, they are the biggest tribe, and most known of out of all the Indian tribes there has ever been in the southeast. They are very important to American History and helped shaped us to be the Americans we are today, which is clearly what I 'll be explaining in this paper. Throughout the paper, I 'll tell you everything you need to know about the Cherokee Indians and continue to relate to the thesis.

In American Indian life, they believe their life is interconnected with the world, nature, and other people. The idea of a peoplehood matrix runs deep in Indian culture, in this essay the Cherokee, which is the holistic view of sacred history, language, ceremony, and homeland together. This holistic model shapes the life of the American Indians and how their sense of being and relationship to their history is strong and extremely valuable to them. This essay will try to explain how each aspect of the peoplehood matrix is important and interconnected to each other and the life of the Native Americans.

In Deborah Miranda’s memoir “Bad Indians”, she uses documents, images, and drawings to expose colonial violence and provides evidence of a history of conquest. There are different types of colonial violence that are depicted throughout her memoir, such as: physical, emotional, sexual, and cultural violence. Additionally, Miranda exposes the nature of colonial violence by providing evidence by implementing particular sources to contribute in confirming the history of conquest throughout the lives of California Mission Indians.

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In her novel, Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir, Deborah A. Miranda theorizes that the underlying patronage of her father’s violent behavior arises from the original acts of violence carried out by the Spanish Catholic Church during the era of missionization in California. The structure of her novel plays an essential role in the development of her theory, and allows her to further generalize it to encompass the entire human population. “In this beautiful and devastating book, part tribal history, part lyric and intimate memoir, Deborah A. Miranda tells stories of her Ohlone Costanoan Esselen family as well as the experience of California Indians as a whole through oral histories, newspaper clippings, anthropological recordings, personal reflections, and poems.” Patching together every individual source to create the story of a culture as a whole, Miranda facilitates the task of conceptualizing how Societal Process Theory could play into the domestic violence she experiences growing up as the daughter of a California Indian.

Colonialism has a historical context that has long obscured and distorted the experiences of indigenous people, particularly those who endured the brutalities of the California Missions. Although indigenous people are portrayed in history as docile people, who openly embraced invasion, Deborah Miranda dismantles this depiction in her memoir, Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir, through two stories called “Dear Vicenta” and “Novena to Bad Indians”. Throughout the stories run various narratives of survival and resistance, which form new understandings of colonization and missionization. Miranda practices decolonization through oral history in order to form new and ongoing indigenous identities. Evidently, through decolonial practice and deconstructing dominant narratives about “colonized” peoples and replacing them with stories that use traditional memory and practice, Miranda disrupts the commonly accepted narrative of indigenous peoples by reconstructing the dichotomy between good and bad Indians through acts of resistance and survival.

Traditions and old teachings are essential to Native American culture; however growing up in the modern west creates a distance and ignorance about one’s identity. In the beginning, the narrator is in the hospital while as his father lies on his death bed, when he than encounters fellow Native Americans. One of these men talks about an elderly Indian Scholar who paradoxically discussed identity, “She had taken nostalgia as her false idol-her thin blanket-and it was murdering her” (6). The nostalgia represents the old Native American ways. The woman can’t seem to let go of the past, which in turn creates confusion for the man to why she can’t let it go because she was lecturing “…separate indigenous literary identity which was ironic considering that she was speaking English in a room full of white professors”(6). The man’s ignorance with the elderly woman’s message creates a further cultural identity struggle. Once more in the hospital, the narrator talks to another Native American man who similarly feels a divide with his culture. “The Indian world is filled with charlatan, men and women who pretend…”

In this book, the writer tries to achieve the titanic venture of deconstructing the myth that encompasses the starting points of America and subsist into the present as a philosophy. This philosophy has verifiably upheld the dispossession of Native Americans from their genealogical grounds, and propagated to the present day the uncalled for relationship between the relatives of the individuals who came and of the individuals who were

Our subject is an African American female. The historical roots of the African American family are in Africa and as a result the family can trace its origin to a distinct culture and society.

History isn’t always the glamorous and fast paced events like war, but sometimes it's just explaining things the average Joe might experience during his time on the Earth. This paper will not have any war or conflicts that are life or death for the delicate system of a community, but it's history nonetheless. The History of my family and how it connects to bring us decades later to where we are today.

What is genealogy? Genealogy is the study of the history of families and the line of descent from their ancestors. In other words, it is history, but on a more personal spectrum. During my research I asked myself a series of questions that shaped this paper. Who am I? Where did I come from? Where am I going? Before beginning my research I knew I would only be able to trace my family history back a generation or two. Some abandonment and adoptions took place and because of this there was very little room for me to investigate without opening up old wounds and/or hitting a dead end. I based my research on the information I found while investigating my paternal family. I chose to conduct my research on my paternal side because my mother is adopted.

Perdue’s topic is the gender construction and distinctions in Cherokee Indian society, the traditional roles that women played and how cultural progression affected them specifically. Cherokee women lived in a world that was disrupted by trade and war which resulted in a shifting for both male and female roles in their community. With the arrival of Europeans, the significance of trade and warfare, men became the focus of clan livelihood thereby brining about changes in the traditional matrilineal kinship structure of native lifestyles creating a profound effect on women and their status. Women were traditionally equated with “Mother Earth” being the giver and sustainer of life, as such, they held a profound connection to family and the land. They were primarily responsible for households, children, and agricultural endeavors which their people depended on to survive. Native communities’ economic base was agriculture. This gave them considerable power and prestige within their respective clans. However, as the “civilizers” intently placed Cherokee men in a more patriarchal position in the areas of economic and political roles, women’s position of power, prestige and autonomy declined.

Knowing who you are is always helpful. It helps you know your history and family. Nowadays, kids do not want to know their history and ancestry because they do not really care about it. Me for example,before this capstone project, I would never tried to find out what is my ancestry is. I knew that I am Asian and from Tajikistan that all. My grandmother is historian and of course she knows our ancestry better than me. She told me couple of interesting story that I did not know before. Therefore, I would like to write some of the stories that she told me about my ancestry.

To gain more information on my family’s history, I spoke with my father, Lalji Patel over the phone. I choose to speak with him because he knows a great deal about my ancestors and has also experienced migration first hand. First, my father shared information to help me better understand who my ancestors were. My great-grandfather is Dayabhai Patel and he married my great-grandmother, Modhiben Patel at a young age. They had a son in 1941, Bhimjibhai Patel, who is my grandfather. My grandfather married my grandmother, Rangaiben Patel at the age of twenty-three. My great-grandparents and grandparents were born and raised in Bhavnagar, India. This is also where they got married. Soon after their marriage, my grandmother gave birth to my aunt, Hansa Patel in 1968 and four years later gave birth to my father, Lalji Patel. In 1994, my father married my mother and four years after, I was born.