Lupita's Compassion: Under The Mesquite

Maria Lupe’s account is similar to Montejos. She describes her hardships as a house wife, working on a plantation of a rich land owner. Her husband worked for 50 cents per day, and her payment was in food. She mentions moving closer to the north in a town

The daughter of Marie is Rhonda Larabee, who is now the Chief of the Qayqayt, but her title didn’t come without a struggle. Rhonda was raised in Chinatown born into the Lee family thinking she was Chinese. Growing up in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, British Columbia it didn’t matter what your ethnicity was. [cite] But when Rhonda got older, she realized she was different from the other Asian families. When she spoke with her mother about this, her mother would brush it off, saying she was French and Chinese. It wasn’t until many years later when Rhonda was 24 and working on a family tree did she realize that she knew much of her large paternal side of the family, they were all quite close and lived within a 2-4 block radius; but her mother’s side was left a mystery. Rhonda finally asked her mother to fill in the blanks. After years of not acknowledging her Aboriginal ancestry, Marie finally agreed to tell Rhonda about her past. She said she would tell her story once, and only once, that Rhonda could not ask any questions, nor could she bring it up again. Marie said her mom was Etta Ida Charlie and her dad was George Joseph. She said it was shameful and hard to be an Indian child; they were poor and called names. Her dad died when she was 5 and about 5 years later her

La Loca’s existence is crucial for two major reasons. First, her resurrection in the first chapter declares the nature of the story and hints of its magical narrative. Castillo wastes no time to inform her readers that So Far From God is a work of magical realism. Second, La Loca exists to encourage Sofi to rebel against the religious institution and the political establishment. As the narrator reports, “Loca had never left home and her mother was the sole person whom she ever let get near her” (221). This is a hint that La Loca’s relationship with Sofi goes beyond a mother-daughter relationship. It is a cause-and-effect relationship, since Sofi’s rebellion is staged on three different phases—each phase begins with La Loca (the cause) and ends with Sofi (the effect).

Mexican immigrants were faced with bad housing, low wages, and discrimination once in the U.S., but they never gave up. In the book Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan, Esperanza faced many hardships during her life like her papa dying and moving to California. After Esperanza learned that her father had been killed by bandits, she faced many challenges as an immigrant. Even though Esperanza had many challenges during her life, her hardest ones were when Esperanza had to go work in the fields and take care of her mama, when the dust storm caused her mama to get sick with valley fever, and when Esperanza and other Mexicans faced discrimination in the U.S. Most importantly, Esperanza faced the challenge of having to work in the sheds and take care of her mama. Esperanza had to work very hard to try and keep her mama from getting worse.

Rigoberta starts questioning her perspective on ladinos, wondering if they are really all bad. She befriends Indians who have worked with poor ladinos who suffer from the same problems as her community does. The poor, from ladino to Indian, are exploited just the same yet they are so conditioned to dislike one another it’s hard for them to unite and really consider their circumstances the same. This troubles Rigoberta greatly for she knows that the heart of her distress aches from abuse from the rich landowners and if the poor ladinos are abused the same, they ache as well. Rigoberta dares to live in a state of confusion when wondering why there is such an enormous barrier between ladino and Indian. This confused state of mind is progressive for her time because her culture has long equated change and confusion with chaos and

Luzena was one of the women that the men enjoyed watching because she was one of the few that was not a prostitute. Luzena’s husband did not succeed on his quest to find gold, however Luzena was able to make money by feeding the gold finders. She started off by feeding twenty miners at $1 each eventually 200 boarders at $25 per week. The Lakota’s was an Indian tribe led by a warrior named Conquering Bear who refused to give up their land to the Americans.

On September 9, 2017 at the Lorton Performing Arts Center at T.U. Me, Dana from class, and her son went to go see LaDonna Harris: Indian 101 documentary, and a chance to meet her and ask her questions. When we got there, we were in this small room, until more people started to show up. The room got so packed we all had to move into a bigger room, that was the size of a movie theater. It was a great feeling of emotion that so many people have come to see this and to hear her speak. LaDonna Harris was Comanche, and grow up in Oklahoma. She took on the fight against segregation and help Indians and Indigenous people. She emerged to take a stand to gain the rights and respect that both Indians and Indigenous people have always deserved. She has had an impact not only in the United States, but all around the world.

With hardly any animals to hunt, most Lubicon people begin to use welfare. The government single-handedly contributed to the assimilation of the Lubicon Cree. Not only are the Lubicon losing their identities but are also losing their traditions, such as their medical practice. Because of globalization, the Lubicon Cree have been cruelly treated and have been stripped of their identity, the government have even went as far as removing some band members of their status. Instead of hunting for food, gathering herbs and plants for medicine, they began to depend on the welfare they get from the government, which is hardly enough, the death toll started to rise in their society, from starvation to illness.

There are many valuable lessons in this book. Even as a young child, Luong had to learn how to survive through this terrible situation. One lesson is that family is very important. Without her father, mother, sisters, and brothers, Luong wouldn’t have been able to survive. Without her brothers and father providing the family with food, the family wouldn’t have been able to survive. A second lesson is that sometimes a person or government’s actions can be different than their original intentions and ideas. The thought of having a classless society might seem good, but in reality, it is very impractical. A third theme is that even in bad situations, you have to have a good spirit. Even though her parents and two of her sisters were brutally murdered by the Khmer Rouge, she was still able to keep her spirit alive and

Although some readers might think Margaret Laurence's short story “The Loons” is about the naivety of a young girl named Vanessa who spent her days fantasizing about native american culture, it is in fact about the adversity an individual faces when presented with a lack of belonging. Laurence employs this idea through the loss and mourning of her two main characters. Through Vanessa McLeod and Piquette Tonnerres she shows how one individual’s perpetual need of belonging influences the others ulterior reality. She does this to showcase the disastrous effects of a dominant society on the prior inhabitants of the land and how it relates to a feeling loss and mourning.

Lupita loses her mother whom she is very close with and Ha has to completely start over due to war in her native country. Lupita’s mother always wanted Lupita to go to college and lead the way for the rest of her siblings. After her mother passes away, Lupita uses this wish from her mother to motivate her on her way to college, which becomes very difficult without the support of her mother. Ha, although, has to move to a new country and learn a new way to live. She is motivated by her need to fit in.

Lulu Lamartine actively fights against the government’s appropriation of Native American land, disagreeing with the idea that it will improve their life and the expectation that Native Americans will be grateful for the sale. Lulu’s ideas about the importance of living on their own land were first influenced by her family as a young adult. For example, she is told to “sing my songs and then bury me high in a tree, Lulu, where I can see my enemies approach in the government cars” (71). The United States’ government intervention in the lives of Native Americans is a continued point of tension throughout her life. Lulu has a distinct distrust of the United

Sor Juana was very different from the other women living in Colonial Latin America. She was a woman that strove for more out of life, regardless of gender and social stratifications. Even as a child, Sor Juana begged her mother to dress her as a boy so she could attend the schools and Universities in Mexico City. She chose to live her life in the convent, not because of her undying need to study the lord's word, but because it opted her out of the marriage life and allowed her to study and continue her learning. She wanted nothing to do with the lifestyle of a normal colonial woman and the only "children" that she was interested in having were her precious library, telescope and other tools of learning. Women of colonial Latin America we seen as objects, that provided a means of reproduction. Sor Juana greatly disagreed with this and based the majority of her work on this concept.

In “Heterosexualism and the Colonial/ Modern Gender System,” Maria Lugones offers the idea that gender targets women of color. Lugones brings up the research of Oyeronke Oyewumi, who looked into how gender affected the structure of the Yoruba people, especially since gender was not a concept that was originally part of their culture. Once the idea of “women,” was implemented into the community through colonization, women were identified in contrast to men who were then considered the “norm.” (Lugones). If the women did not have a penis, they were reduced as women, beneath men and they no longer had any power in their communities. The Yoruba men accepted this idea and then collaborated with colonists to further oppress women (Lugones). Paula

Achieving something she never thought she could. She demonstrates the definition of perseverance and continued to endure the hardships. That made her realize something she was unknowing of; her strength and perseverance She became the first immigrant in her village to escape life in poverty.