The Man Fly Send Rain Clouds

The main ideas of chapter one was the conquest and exploration of the early America’s by the spaniards. Throughout the chapter, it explains the difficulties that the spanish explorers faced when attempting to conquer new lands. The primary problem the explorers faced was with the current inhabitants of the lands they wanted to conquer, especially with the cultural differences between populations. On article that exemplifies the cultural differences between the Native Americans and the Spanish Explorers is the third-person biographical narrative called “The Collision of Cultures.” The narrative gives the reader insight on what the indians and the explorers pre-judgement of one another, based off of what the parties believed with their religion and moral. This article’s reader would be

The story I'm choosing is The Man to Send Rain Clouds by Leslie Marmon Silko. The theme of the story is about the strength of Native American customs and traditions and bridging the gap between Native American customs and Christian customs. The author uses the setting and the mood to surface the theme throughout the story. The Man to Send Rain Clouds helps to set up a recurring theme that Silko will use in many of her other stories.

In Sherman Alexie’s novel “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” the narrator portrays both internal and external conflicts throughout his journey to success. Arnold Junior Spirit is a fourteen-year-old boy who believes that in order to pursue his dream he will have to choose between staying in his Spokane Indian reservation or moving out to an all-white school in the neighboring farm town. But things aren’t as easy as they seem when Junior tries moving schools because he know has to be part of two communities. Many conflicts form within the Spokane Indian reservation and the Spokane Indian reservation as well comes into conflict with the white community.

As they are wrapping up Teofilo’s corpse, Leon ties a gray feather in the old man’s hair with a piece of twine. Ken hands him paint and he decorates the old man’s face with stripes of white, blue, yellow and green stripes. Leon tosses pinches of cornmeal and pollen into the air. The narrator does not describe the significance of these actions, but it is obvious that these are ritualistic activities that have to do with funeral rites. The men wrap the corpse in a red blanket and carry it up to their truck. At this point the reader becomes aware that the men must have anticipated that Teofilo was dead when they went out to the sheep encampment. Why else would they have brought the paint, cornmeal, pollen, and red blanket? The men appear to be filling their parts in a predetermined drama. Before placing the blanket-wrapped body in the back of the truck, Leon addresses Teofilo’s corpse: “Bring us rain clouds, Grandfather.” (Silko, p. 358).

From the very first interaction, the social and political relations between the Native Americans and the Europeans had begun with much tension. Many Europeans came to the Americas with the intention of discovery. However, when it became apparent that these new lands were inhibited the motives changed, and then the natives were colonized, abused, and in many cases killed. From then and throughout the impending periods of time, the relations between the natives and the Europeans had a few points of mutual peacefulness, but were overall negative.

When thinking about relevant theories to the Native American conflict, there are a few that can be applied in a few different ways to help explain the various aspects of this conflict. Three of the theories discussed in this course – primordialist theory, social construction theory, and psychological theories - contain aspects that are applicable to this Native American conflict, while other theories do a poor job of explaining the conflict. On the other hand, one theory from this course – instrumentalism – is not useful in explaining the conflict.

　　　　According to the short story, The Man to Send Rain Clouds by Leslie Marmon Silko, it is evident that the traditional Laguna Native American burial conflicts with the Catholic Church after the death of the old man. According to the traditional rituals, the dead man is supposed to have a feather tied on their head, their faces smeared with four colors, they should be wrapped in a red blanket and buried with corn meal and water should be sprinkled around their graves. These are the traditional rituals practiced by the Laguna individuals which are symbolic to their culture. The feathers are symbolic in the Native American Cultures are they symbolize the spirit

Within the Native culture and the Colonial cultures in North America, there are confusion, misjudging, assumptions and conflicts among the two.

The colonisation of North America by the Europeans became one of the most crucial points for the native North Americans. The differing experiences of contact between both cultures had overwhelmingly disastrous impacts on the normal way of life. From such contact arose the issue of land disputes, in turn resulting in massacres and frontier wars which could have otherwise been unnecessary. The factors stated above provide a suitable stimulus for a discussion in regards to the varying encounters of the Indigenous North Americans.

To begin, many conflicts began to arise in the volatile relationship between Native Americans and English Settlers and the Spanish government. Much of the conflicts arose from a clash in cultures. For instance, Francisco Coronado stated that it was wrong for Native Americans to believe in many gods because it was

To better understand the conflict between the Europeans and the Native Americans, one must closely examine the state of Europe’s economy at the time. Europe struggled with difficult conditions. This included poverty, violence and diseases like typhus, smallpox, influenza and measles. There were widespread famines which caused the prices of products to vary and made life very difficult in Europe. Street crimes and violence were prevalent in cities: “Other eruption of bizarre torture, murder, and ritual cannibalism were not uncommon”.2 Europeans

The people of the Laguna Pueblo reservation had a respect for the land they lived on. Exhibiting the beliefs of most Native American tribes, they always hunted in certain places and knew the balance of the earth. When other people, the “white people” (page 172), started to overtake the land, they knew they would not be able to stop them from demolishing both the land and the animals that lived there. This shows the evolution of the Native American culture and life as other settlers with differing beliefs found the lands.

When Europeans first set foot upon the shores of what is now the United States they brought with them a social structure which was fundamentally based around their concept and understanding of Western European Christianity. That the indigenous peoples might already have a thriving civilization, including religious beliefs and practices, that closely paralleled the beliefs and practices of European civilization, was a concept not considered by these early explorers and settlers. This European lack of cultural understanding created tensions, between Native Americans and Europeans, and later between Native Americans and Euro-Americans, that eventually erupted into open warfare and resulted in great bloodshed between cultures. For the Lakota

Leon gets in the truck and goes down to the church to see if the priest is there.

Between 1790 and 1920 it was a tough time for the Indians. During that period Native Americans were forced to convert to the European-American Culture. Their whole life changed, the way of living, religion, and especially their children’s future. It was wrong of Americans to convert natives into a different society that they saw fit and not letting them express their own culture and treating them as an unworthy society.