My Life On The Reservation Research Paper

Growing up on a reservation many challenges are thrown at you. Everyday people struggle whether it is with substance abuse, financial problems, or even staying in school. I have difficulties myself living on a reservation where poverty is a big issue. One big issue I had to overcome was trying to continue my education when things were not looking so well for me. I dropped out of high school when I was sixteen years old to help raise my younger siblings due certain circumstances. I shortly found myself going down the wrong path in life. I was searching for something that was not there but I knew in my heart, I was searching for myself. Later, I seen an advertisement on the TV. It was of a program called, 'Montana Youth Challenge' it is a program

A long time ago, in about 2004, I was born to two drug and alcohol addicts. We lived in Plano, Texas, in a disgusting apartment. We had cat and dog feces everywhere, and overall it wasn’t the best environment to raise a child in. But when I was about four and a half, my mother put me up for adoption without telling me. I ended up being adopted by my aunt and uncle, but although being four and a half, I will always remember that day vividly, because that was the first day I had experienced real love.

So many of the Indians on the reservation had given up on trying to move on from their poor lifestyle and have decided to stay with their Indian culture. However, this is not the case for Junior. Despite the fact that he grew up with a variety of medical problems and unlucky experiences, he still did not give in. Now why didn’t he just stay within the reservation he was on? It would have been much simpler if he just stayed there with his family than travel outside of the reservation (not to mention the low chances of him succeeding in getting anywhere). So why bother? The simplest reason would be that he’s determined to get a better life.

As I finished the film Crash and read the book, I found few similarities and more differences. Both of them, however, relating to Fredrickson’s ethnic relations in a lot of ways. Throughout both Crash and the Indian story there were concepts in common, but the prevailing point were the hardships of every culture. This main concept can be drawn to the models of ethnic hierarchy and one-way assimilation. In the film and in the book, each race tries to be dominant than the other and often minorities are looked down on. This is when things like stereotypes emerge. It seems like we have been battling racism for a long time, but no progress has been made despite media like Crash and the Indian story showing us the problems at hand.

In the story of reservation blues by sherman alexie the opening chapter starts off with the literary device of foreshadowing. “ In the one hundred and eleven years since the creation of the spokane indian reservation in 1881, not one person, indian or otherwise, had arrived there by accident. Wellpinit, the only town the reservation, did not exist on most maps, so the black stranger surprised the whole tribe when he appeared with nothing more than the suit he wore and guitar slung over his back.”(pg.1 Alexie, S. (2014). Reservation blues. Grove Press) The opening scene in this chapter gave me the feel of an mystical spooky setting. This lead me to believe that this character “ Robert Johnson” would have a big part in this story. Robert johnson is an

In the novel Reservation Blues, most of the characters struggle with their identity at some point. Victor has an especially strong urge to rebel against his Native American heritage, which is apparent in his violent, arrogant demeanor and his obvious problem with alcohol. Victor is tied to his past and has trouble coping with his life as it is, and is in a constant battle with himself, his surroundings, and other people.

Should settlers take into consideration the heritage and cultural ties to geographic areas of native people when instituting policies? The past has shown that native people have been mistreated. But we still see hatred towards them currently. History shows that Native Americans should have every right to decide what happens on their land in the United States. Not only is this true for Native Americans, but it is also true for the First Nation in Canada, Indigenous Australians, and Amazon Natives.

There are many important points in this paper. First of all, the predisposition that the new arrivers had towards Native American people, I believe that that selfish and wrong way of thinking that they had was the source of the holocaust that followed. Because, these new arrivers had the belief that everybody that thought in a way different to theirs, was mistaken and that they have the right to change the others’ “wrong” thinking, simply because they thought that the way they perceived things was the “correct” one. Therefore they did not allow the Native American people to show them or to share with them their beliefs, they simply imposed all their rules, beliefs, values and way of thinking. The previous fact also reveals the feeling of superiority

Imagine a life where the government legally owns all your assets, and you report to a special bureau set up to handle your affairs. The land you live on is held in trust, and each exhausting step you take to climb out of poverty is snagged in mountains of legal red tape.

WW1: Many First Nations across Canada were brought together during the war, allowing them to find out how their concerns were similar and encouraging them to advocate together for their rights

The Spokane Indians were victims of adversity, whereas the students of Reardan high school were met with privilege. With this in mind, the reader is able to recognize the deviation in the aforementioned environments throughout the novel. To support this, a statement that exposes a confession of the direct oppression youth on the reservation face is one made by Arnold’s teacher, Mr. P. Mr. P is in the midst of lecturing Arnold about the reasons he should leave the reservation when he says, “We were supposed to kill the Indian to save the child” (Sherman 35). Mr. P explains to Arnold that the teachers were instructed to strip Indians of their culture. Within the same conversation Mr. P continues on to say, “The only thing you kids are being

Our story opens with a monologue and a house fire on what we learn is the Coeur d’Alene Indian Reservation in Washington. We see a man catch a baby thrown from the second story while the child’s parents die in the fire. The two families involved are our main characters. One family is made up of Arnold and Arlene Joseph, as well as their son, Victor. The other family is Thomas Builds-the-Fire and his grandmother, who raises him after his parents’ deaths. After the house fire, we see that Arnold cuts his long hair and begins to abuse alcohol, and after becoming physically and emotionally abusive, leaves for good to Phoenix, Arizona. After ten years, Victor and Arlene get news that Arnold has died and someone needs to come get his remains, which were cremated. Thomas offers Victor the funds to get there, on the condition that he can come along. Victor reluctantly agrees, and they set off to the bus station. They walk to the bus station and are picked up on the way by two teenage girls driving a car in reverse. During the trip, they encounter a young woman who claims to be an Olympic gymnast and two southern men who take their seats on the bus. Victor tries to teach Thomas how to be a “real Indian” by taking out his braids and changing out of his suit. Once they arrive in Phoenix and walk to his father’s trailer in the middle of the desert, they then meet a woman named Suzy Song. Suzy grew close to Arnold during his time in Phoenix, and saw him as a type of father figure. She

During the Age of Faith, early relations between Native Americans and Europeans altered from a basis of becoming allies to remaining enemies. The natives displayed new culture, ideas and practices the colonists were not used to. Native soil also accompanied a numerous amount of resources that would soon become significant to colonization. Colonists attempted to negotiate their efforts on native land through trade mechanisms. Nonetheless, the growth of mistrust between the two groups led to uprisings, and attacks on both sides. Colonists wanted to emphasize their superiority among the Native Americans by turning the natives into slaves and treating them as animals. Relations between the Europeans and Native

This research proposal aims to gain understanding of the Native American experience living on reservations and explore how they are treated at the intersection of race, gender, and class. What does their culture look like in the modern reservation? What problems do they encounter and how responsible is the United States government for it?

As I continued forth on my journey to find my herd I ran into another tribe of Native Americans. These ones however were not as peaceful as the Navajo. They were known for raiding white settlements and repeatedly left the reservations that had been sent to. These indigenous people are called the Chiricahua Apache. I have just encountered these people after one of their raids in Southern Arizona. They were riding on horse back up to the Chiricahua Mountains. They were very upset about how they had been treated by the United States government and military. They had recently escaped from the San Carlos Reservation. They were tired of staying on reservations so they left and constantly raided American settlers. They were very hard for the United