Native Americans: A Brief Narrative Analysis

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 discuss

“Tell me a fact and I’ll learn. Tell me the truth and I’ll believe. But tell me a story and it will live in my heart forever.-Native American proverb” This is a Native American proverb that shows how important storytelling and stories are to the Native Americans and their culture. Storytelling was a big way of teaching their lifestyle to their younger generation. Storytelling is very important to the Native American culture because it helps explain their way of life, faith, and helps teach life lessons to the younger generation.

wasn't that big and nice. The land is actually in bad conditions when we got there and it still is now. The U.S. soldiers told us that this will be our new home and we had to stay here. If we left, then we might have been prosecuted and worst of all killed. They also said that this is a reservation and by law we had to stay here for now. I went toward the U.S. soldiers and ask, them what was a reservation? They said it was an area of land given by the government for Native Americans to occupy.My face was turning red, I was enraged because we were told to move away from our terrain and to adjust our lives to be on a reservation. We are humans, just like them, meaning we should be treated the same as them and not be set aside like if we something meaningless. In the reservations, we couldn't survive with these kinds of conditions because we need it to hunt buffaloes. buffaloes are our main source that provided almost everything needed to survive. Buffalo provided us with food, tools, weapons, and clothing. It wasn't possible for us to hunt buffalo in reservations because buffaloes, where it usually found in reservations or near reservations.Most Native Americans and I were crying because we lost our spirits a fight. We lost our spirit to fight because the United States troops and the government took our land that was rightly ours, most Native Americans died during the trails of tears. They made us move to a horrible place with the worst conditions that mankind could have imagined.The conditions of the houses on the reservation had the same conditions of a reservation overall. The houses in the reservations are tenements because the houses were poorly built. The ceilings of the houses were poorly built because it seemed that it was going to fall down in view of the fact that the rain made the ceiling fall apart. In the circumscribed land, there wasn’t a multitudinous quantity of stores. The stores

When most people think of "Indians," they think of the common stereotyped of the wild, yelling, half-naked "savages" seen on the television movies. With more modern movies like Dances with Wolves and some of the documentaries like How the West was Lost, some of these attitudes have changed. But the American public as a whole is still very ignorant of what it means to be a Native American-today, or historically.

The role of storytelling in this film initiates great importance in the Native American community. It is seen throughout the movie that many stories are being told by different Indians in their point of view that emphasize some type of importance in their life. It is also a way of exchanging something and/or build a relationship with others. Storytelling has the power to draw someone in and let the storyteller have a voice. The audience may have never heard from a Native American, therefore it was their stage to present their feelings and experiences. I think the film is saying that stories can ease the soul and “the truth” hurts. This history of Native American’s is tragic and it seems it has caught up with today’s generation. Stories gives Indians an outlet to get away from the real world and express themselves freely, while the truth resembles reality.

John was born into a hard environment, a split home with no room for the traditional love a child feels. He was forced to mature quick, and was encouraged to be hardy by his grandfather, who was the only survivor out of his brothers. Men during this time period were often expected to withstand dangerous environments or die trying. “His grandfather was the oldest of eight boys and the only one to live past the age of twenty-five. They were drowned, shot, kicked by horses. They perished in fires. They seemed to fear only dying in bed”. This provides one of many instances entailing the dangers of their

As humans we always ask ourselves some three questions about us. Who are we? Why are we here? And why should we continue to live in this place? We come to these origin tales and myths for answers to these questions. In the Native American myths “The Walam Olum” and “The World on Turtles Back” it clearly shows just how the Native American tribes started there, and should continue to live at the places they started at.

The historical context of the documents complicate the narrative of the United States' "colonial beginnings" because it shows that the original treatment of the Native Americans shaped the United States' beginning, much more than what most are lead to believe. This is shown through the timing of certain events, the issues that caused the events, and the people who helped make many of the events happen or end.

The Chronicles of Native Americans had consequences in the colonialism in northern Americas and the

The movie explains that John’s delinquent tendencies come from his issues with his father. In this scene he does an imitation of what he thinks Brian’s family must be like and then Andrew asks him how his life is, and that is when John explodes. John begins yelling about how

Native American. Indian. These are the names given to the Indigenous peoples of Native North America so that they may be classified together as one group, a single entity, to define thousands of years of multifaceted cultures, many of which have unfortunately been lost. Prior to European contact, many of these Native groups encompassing present day Canada to Mexico lived their lives ruled by political systems, a complex use of resources available, social stratification, and the creation of a vast array of tools and technology to further expand their cultures and populations. Many of these indigenous peoples with old world belief systems were named by Europeans and forced to acculturate themselves with distinct civilized views. But prior to Columbus’s arrival, these independent groups had created lush and intricate societies that were highly successful, practical, and functional.

Native American stories have been around before europeans stepped in america. The mayans were one of the oldest native americans to exist.In the myth of the mayans it is implied that it took several attempts for man to be in existence, which the reader is unable to perceive.

John is a mistake of creation, born from two elitist parents from London whose civilization prohibits the natural occurrence of pregnancy. John’s mother thought dead after she was

One of the most memorable campfire stories I can think of when I look back on being a kid. Is by a man named Rich the one that I will always remember is the one about the Native American shape shifters. I think that the main reason I remember it the most is that how it scared me, but at the same time intrigued me. The Native American shapeshifters can come in many different forms varying in beliefs from tribe to tribe.

By the age of 18, John had to join the military service. He was gone for one year, but he and Mary would send letters to each other every week. It was hard for him to be away from his family and Mary, but John learned that maybe his dreams were not big enough. He started dreaming about more than just being a farmer and live in his hometown for the rest of his life. After serving his country for a year, John came back home, but his dreams were bigger than ever. Another two years went by and John saved as much money as he could. When John was 22, he was planning to move to Angola, a Portuguese colony at the time. Angola was a flourishing country and it was a good place to start a new life. John said goodbye to his family and Mary and left, with