St Lucy's Analysis

With waves of the American population moving westward, government attempted to assimilate, or integrate, Native Americans into American society. Their goal was for Native Americans to live and behave like white Americans, and for them “to cast off their savage habits and become an interesting, civilized, and Christian community” (Doc 9). Children were sent to boarding schools where they were given new clothes and haircuts, and taught English, Christianity, and American ways of life (Doc 13). While many Americans believed this would be good for the Native Americans, it effectively destroyed their culture and identity. By forcing them to learn English, they were unable to communicate the concepts, beliefs, and ideas their languages were based on. Americans did not consider the fact that English could not substitute for Native languages, because they are based on different realities, histories, and cultures (Doc 3). Assimilation turned the lives of Native Americans upside-down, forcing them to give up ideas and beliefs they had been practicing their whole lives, without any say. Slowly, Native American culture and lifestyle faded until it was nearly

Boarding schools natives often center on the abuses, removal of cultural beliefs and symbols, and the pupils disconnection with their Native American identities. Although these factors are at play in Francis La Flesche’s memoire, The Middle Five Indiana Boys at School presents a different focus. He writes, “to reveal the rue nature and character of the Indian boy” by telling the story of his schoolmates (Preface). The narrative brings the lives of the Middle Five to life with their boyhood adventures and experiences described in their words. Throughout the narrative, La Flesche’s shows the significance of traditional Omaha life in his and his friend’s experiences through the words and examples of their families. Families were central to

Gertrude Bonnin in “Zitkala-se” reveal the changes Native American Indians experience after returning home from American-Indian Boarding schools. The following paper argues that Gertrude Bonnin’s writing aim to enlighten the white supremacy by illustrating the backlash faced by students after they have received the highly-praised Euro-American education. The author targets the white population because they are not aware of the “white” education’s negative consequences faced by the cultured Native Indians, especially the children. Bonnin focus on how the newly acquired Euro-American education stole the classic traditions of Native Indians away from them, by forcing the Indians to adopt the “white” way and abandon their own roots. In Zitkala-se, Bonnin illustrates how the native Sioux changed the way they dressed, and lived to reflect the white ways, because of the Euro-American education received by them.

She’s talking about the diplomatic, and economic ties between the French and Quapaw people, as well with other indian American tribes and how that was in some aspects good for the economic side but bad on others points, she focused basically on the reality of the intermarriage and how the politics and the church plays a big part on hiding that the ever was any union between

With the intention for the boarding schools students to forget their old culture right from the start, many different things took place. Students at the boarding schools had limitations placed upon them and they were banned from behaving as they did in their original culture. Sarah Stone writes that the Indian students were required to “get rid of their tribal clothes and any memorabilia” (21); a task that caused the students to begin to forget their old way of life. In a similar manner, the wolf girls of St. Lucy’s were required to act as civilized humans and refrain from acting as wild creatures. Russell writes that the wolf girls felt as if the limitations made them “feel invisible” (240) and in a it did. As the process continued, the Indian

In 1800 the government viewed the tribes as savages hence, in 1828 Andrew Jackson committed to remove or relocate the Indians even if force is needed(PBS indian country diaries, Relocation). Correspondingly the girls from St. Lucy’s were forced to stay at the school even though the nuns did leave the gate open, this is done because the nuns acknowledged that if they return the girls would be shunned by their family, accordingly being tortured (ST. Lucys). In the fall and winter months of 1838-1839 Jackson's wishes came true, when seven thousand troops under command of General Winfield Scott rounded up Cherokee indians at bayonet point (PBS Indian country diaries, Relocation). Furthermore these cold months on the trail ends up killing four thousand

Interestingly, part of this reading relates to a novel I chose from the two novels we had options for called "Indian Women and French Men." The Chicago Treaty, which is mentioned in "Land Too Good For Indians" was a treaty that allowed Catholic Indians to be free from forced government removal. “Only forced removal threatened the future of the Potawatomi Indians, and, even then, kinship became an effective means of combating removal and ensuring persistence” (Smith 95). Unfortunately the Indians did not know they were going to be exempted and the upcoming treaty was a source of great stress. Another reference to Indian Women and French men related to the fur trade, which women were heavily involved in through kinship. "Once the tribes drained

Saints, by definition, are “any persons of exceptional holiness of life, formally recognized by the Catholic Church.” As Catholics, we practice praying to saints to ask for guidance in all types of situations. To become a saint, a person must live a holy life, have proof of miracles, and must be beatified before the official canonization. The saint I chose, Saint Lucia, led a very holy life, and gave her life rather than deny her faith.

Native Americans have a strong culture, often connected to nature. They often portray animals teaching humans morals and values. However, assimilation can ruin these strong beliefs. In these texts, the complexities of Native American culture are discussed. One is a creation text which represents culture, and the beliefs that Native Americans have. The other is a passage in which a young boy does not know the language of his people, showing the degradation of Native American culture. Thus, “The Sky Tree” by Joseph Bruchac shows how strong the Native American culture was, but “Indian Boy Love Song (#2)” by Sherman Alexie shows how, over time, Native American culture diminishes due to assimilation into the English culture.

After Jonathan was in Transylvania, his fiancee Mina and her best friend , Lucy , exchanging letters about Lucy's recent engagement with Arthur Holmwoed. One day Mina sitting alone and seeing the sea. A sailor came and say "that ship is sailing very strangely, it changes direction with every puff of wind as if on one is steering. We'll hear more about it before this time tomorrow". The sailor's prediction was right, for the next day, Mina reads newspaper. The article in newspaper about corpse. The corpse was captain and

St. Perpetua was a very young and intelligent Christian women who was martyred in the third century. She grew up in the city of Carthage in England and lived there til her death in approximately 203 A.D. St. Perpetua was raised by her father who was a pagan and her mother who was a Christian. She followed in the footsteps of her mother and became a strong believing Christian, even though her father tried to convince her against it. At a young age, 22, St. Perpetua was put in prison for her faith. At the time, she was married and had a young baby son. While in prison, she still nursed her son and no matter how hard they tried to convince her to leave her faith, she wouldn’t under any circumstance. "Do not abandon me to be the reproach of men. Think of your brothers; think of your mother and your aunt; think of your child, who will not be able to live once you are gone. Give up your pride!" (St. Perpetua’s father). Her father tried very hard to make her deny her faith, but she didn’t change her mind at all. She was condemned to death by Hilarianus, and so was put in a stadium with a bunch of wild beasts too. People in the crowd were getting anxious and so instead of waiting a long time for a beast to kill her, she was put in a line with

In moving from singular case studies to evaluating the data in a wider context, details were learned about the daily life of Medieval London and the relationship between migrating and living in an urban environment reflects on health. The consistency in the recording of data allowed for minimal variation in results over the observation of the 5387 individuals. The detailed inclusion of data will allow for future comparison between data sets and there is a possibility to evaluate grave goods in conjunction with stable isotope analysis to evaluate migration and how individuals viewed themselves.

In the second episode, Lurie experiences a complete turnaround of disgrace. He has left the university to go and stay with his daughter Lucy. While he is there, they are attacked by three men. Lurie gets roughed up and Lucy is assaulted. The offender has now become a victim. Both Lucy and Lurie are lacerated by the incident and Lucy does not wish for anyone to know that she was abused by the assailants. Lurie reluctantly consents. Through an epiphany “Lucy’s secret; his disgrace” (13/109), he believes Lucy’s motive is that she is willing to endure the feelings of disgrace, but does not want to suffer the disgrace of people knowing about her disgrace “It is my business, mine alone” (13/111) and that he has to live with the disgrace of knowing

When traveling to the village, there were noticeable differences of the native’s culture to the typical American culture. In accordance to my beliefs, the biggest

Not to far along, a party is planned for Mrs. Moore and Miss Quested. A few native Indians are invited. The party turns out to be a flop. The British and the natives separate themselves from each other and nobody communicates to one-another. Similar to the small dances we use to have as kids. The girls would sit on one side of the room and the boys on the other and no one with enough courage to ask the opposite sex to dance.