Native American Women Analysis

The two short stories that I will use for this essay are “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 Birth Experience”, the story starts out with a girl as a pregnant teenager about to give birth on a reservation in a hospital that gave her free care but was not a pleasant place. Then goes on to tell about her next child’s birth and other women in her family about how different their birthing experiences were. Despite “Black Mountain, 1977” telling a story about a dysfunctional family, “Three Generations of Native American Women’s Birth Experience”, tells the growth of a family through hardships.

The newspaper article “Native American Heritage Month” written by Heather Warlick. Which is a text about the priority of keeping tribal heritage and culture alive for American Indians in their families and communities. Names can be very significant

Although Gunn Allen emphasizes the fighting spirit of the Native American women, she acknowledges that some women have given up and have turned to alcohol, drugs and even suicide in an effort to stop the pain of poverty and abuse. Still other Native American women struggle to fight the addictions of their family and friends. Some women choose to give up by assimilating into the white world and cut ties forever with their own culture.

In chapter five of her book, Anderson starts it by stating that “I’m not a feminist”. She shares her experience that this is the remark she very often hears from Indigenous women. She further narrates that when she shared the idea of writing an essay on Indigenous feminism with friends and colleagues, many of them were skeptical: some seemed bored; others considered it a waste of time; remaining labeled it a negative activity. Interestingly, one of the author’s friends remarked that “feminists are always arguing against something”. These sentiments are main reasons of discouragement among Indigenous women to be identified as feminist. In my opinion, this issue is very complex; therefore, should be looked at holistically. Before I further reflect

Native Americans are people that were America Indians they are consider pre-Columbian ancestor were indigenous. Everyday I'm the world people talk about the Native Americans and the important they did, but I realized that people do not know all the things that made the native americans women's did.

Zinn explains different forms of equality towards men, women, and children in Native American tribes and compares them to the equality in Europe and the colonies. When Columbus and his successors were not coming into an empty new world, but into a world which places was as populated as Europe itself, where culture was complex, where human relations were more egalitarian than in Europe, and where the relations among men, women, children, and nature were more worked out than perhaps any place in the world. Zinn said “the status of women in Indian tribes are equal, it was better than the status of women in Europe” (5). Women were important and respected in Iroquois society, the senior women in the village named the men who represented the

Culture is intertwined throughout out everything that Native Americans are. Their religion, way of survival, justice system, holistic views, and so much more, comprise their culture. Over the past 200 plus years, Native Americans have been subjected and forced to conform to European derived ideology. This has impacted Native Americans culture from a past, present, and future perspective. These perspectives will be addressed as well as combined into one.

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.

Surely, I was wrong about the perception on native Americans, particularly their remaining values and culture at some point due to the strong political, social, and economic influence of America. In addition, it was also valuable to listen all “from the horses’ mouth” what they think about their times past with numerous challenges and future of indigenous people, their own peaceful, spiritual, and cultural patterns. Nevertheless, there are some challenges for the Native Americans, both US government and the Native Americans are perceived to keep their ancestral way of life, while regulating and adapting to changes in the modern

In the Native American culture, there was a noticeable change in the status of women in the Cherokee nation. Women rarely labored in the fields because duties were “assigned them by nature as Mothers and Wives are well attended to… and cheerfully do they prepare our meals, & for the family they sew, they spin and weave and are in fact a valuable portion of our citizens.” These descriptions of a more civilized culture were hailed in the American press as indicative of the remarkable achievement of an exceptional Indian people. In order to understand the cultural and social changes by Cherokee women, their traditional culture must be analyzed.

Historically it has always been the trend that people are in constant competition for power so that they may impose their ideologies on the rest of society. The government has imposed political and social structures that are in line with their views but they have been shown to promote social inequalities at Indigenous women’s expense. The overrepresentation of Indigenous women in the Criminal Justice System is seen though history, and discrimination can be found at The Canadian Justice system’s actions as an agent for society as a whole has contributed to the devaluation of Indigenous Women. There have been numerous studies and reports done on the relationship between the Canadian government and Indigenous women which has shown the negative impacts of policies enacted. These actions have proved to

The article focused on the formation of Native American consciousness through five personal themes unique to each individual. The five themes are as listed: “Native American language and culture, validity of one's genealogy, adoption of Native American world perspective that aligns with traditional native American customs, one's self concept as a Native American, and enrollment or not in a tribe.” (Horse, 2005, p. 65) Throughout the article horse starts to discuss the oppressive history of Native American groups in the United States and the socio-cultural conflicts that Native American culture have had with “White” mainstream culture. The legal status and cultural change provided an in depth look of how different

Native American Art History is lush with a vast contribution to the American art culture. From jewelry, beading, quillwork, pottery, basketry, to the popular “dreamcatcher craze”, the variety and the beauty of Native American art history is expansive as America itself.

Hello President Van Buren, in current day there are many reasons to why slaves, women and Native Americans face problems in America. Main reason to all three of them is discrimination and not giving each of these people equal rights. Considering most of America is concluded by these three majorities, it is unfair to not reflect to them in most of the events going on in America. Even though they all face similar difficulties, they also have very different issues they deal with on a daily basis.

It is through storytelling, that the rich history of the Native American tribes is alive and well today. It has been shared and preserved and still pays tribute to fallen heroes of the past. It is through these glimpses into the past, and these stories much like the ones that are contained in this book, that you can see what a proud heritage they possess and how in tune with the Earth Native Americans really are.