The Warpath Summary Sparknotes

The play Terra Nova opens with the protagonist Captain Robert Falcon Scott, trying to write a letter to the public. However, Scott was having difficulty to do so, as he’s too weak and weary, he seems to have suffered from frostbites in his hand but he continues to write, speaking his words out loud. At the same time Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian explorer also enters the stage, introducing Scott to the members of the Royal Society, who gathered together in honored of him. Amundsen ' introduction of Scott was the first hint to the audiences that Scott was already dead, and his story is told through the journal and letters that were later found.

“Indians are like the weather.” With his opening words Vine Deloria Jr. sets up the basis for the rest of his witty yet substantial manifesto, Custer Died for Your Sins. The book, which describes the struggles and misrepresentation of the American Indian people in 1960s American culture, is written in a style that changes from ironic and humorous satire to serious notions, then back again. Through energetic dialogue that engages the reader in a clever and articulate presentation, Deloria advocates the dismissal of old stereotypes and shows a viewpoint that allows the general public to gain a deeper understanding of what it is to be an American Indian.

He also portrays the natives with lucid terms so as to shed an innocent light on them in an attempt to instill into his readers why it is so wrong for the Indians to be treated as they are by the Europeans.

Chapter One, Surrounded by Enemies:  The Apache way of life and Geronimo as a young

Leon-Portilla based the stories told in this book upon old writings of actual Aztec people who survived the Spanish massacres. The actual authors of the stories told in this book are priests, wise men and regular people who survived the killings. These stories represent the more realistic view of what really happened during the Spanish conquest. Most of the history about the Aztec Empire was based on Spanish accounts of events, but Leon-Portilla used writings from actual survivors to illustrate the true history from the Indians’ point of view.

ends his novel by predicting that other Native Americans will arise to avenge their people.

With each band being autonomous and fiercely independent, having no one leader being able to speak for all, difficulties arose with enforcing both informal agreements and treaties, as there was no such thing as tribal consensus. The Apache way of life, constructed as it was around the practice of raiding, warfare and individual independence did nothing to improve understanding and made negotiations even more difficult. When the American representatives began hiring Mexican nationals to work for them, the ancient animosity between the Apache and Mexicans resulted in trouble for the Americans. One such event, detailed by Angie Debo in her book, Geronimo, occurred when a Mexican teamster fatally shot an Apache warrior without provocation. Resolving the issue proved to be problematic for the Americans, as Apache law stated the man must die, but American law determined the guilty man had to be tried in court for his crimes. Michael Rice, a member of the press attached to the Fourth Calvary in 1895, noted similar issues with non-Apache Indian scouts in his personal account, “Across Apache Lands”. Rice tells of an instance, following a celebratory banquet, where Apache war whoops, follow by gunfire, sent soldiers running to an expected Apache attack. The whole incident was started by the cavalry’s non-Apache scouts, who

Miranda opens Bad Indians with a brief explanation of her family history and who she is within the book’s introduction. However, she quickly changes point of view when the introduction opens into the main text that presents us first with a set of poems written by Junípero Serra, who many view as the founding father of the mission system. We enter a book that can be described as harboring resentment for and against the mission system from the perspective of the man who began the mission system within California. This allows us to understand what some of Serra’s thoughts were in regards to the Indigenous peoples, not through an explanation given by an outside source, but through his own writings and expressions. Immediately after his poem we learn about the mission project required by most fourth grade curriculum and transition then into a text titled “Adobe Bricks” which lays out a recipe for building a mission. This depiction of what it takes to build a mission displays how the Indians were viewed as mere ingredients to a project rather than as actual human beings. The recipe explains how the Indians must “haul some dirt in” and run “back

However towards the end of the document he starts realizing that the Indians have every right to reject Christianity and wage war against the Spanish, and at the end he even goes as far as to say that the Spanish invasion was wrong. Now when you look at how did this affect the Native Americans you see that it demolished their entire religion, it made them live by a code they didn’t believe in, and it you see Christianity basically took away their land and killed them all.

In his speech Henry convinced Virginia that all the acts of peace had not worked, and will never work. The solution he saw was to fight, and to start the fight immediately. Henry said that they had a right to fight and that God was on their side. From previous British actions, he foresaw war coming and instead of fearing war, he encouraged his audience to embrace

During an Indian speech given by Captain Solomon Uhhaunauwaunmut, the Chief gives his insight on the war between who he addresses the Massachusetts Congress as “Brothers” and Old England. In the Chief’s speech, he takes notice in the feud between the two countries and addresses them both as friends, and neither as a threat or biased foe. In The Chief’s speech, Solomon says, “If I find they are against you, I will try to turn their minds. I think they will listen to me.” Captain Solomon Uhhaunauwaunmut speaks of Old england as the average friend to himself, without any tone of threat or disgust to throw off the Congress.

Context and quote- This quote appears during Henry responds to the opposing argument, giving reasons to refute it. “There is no retreat, but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come” (82).

Threats and attacks on neutral Indians were common among soldiers. Indians lived near the forts in order to trade. Soldiers were constantly afraid and “garrisons spent more time dreading attack than undergoing it”. (130) The soldiers had no way to know if there were spies among them, which made them suspicious of all so sometimes they just killed them all. Even when the killing never happened, the threats, bullying, drinking and bragging by both whites and Indians kept the fear going.

As the many families camp together, proximity combined with necessity breaks down barriers of relation, and miniature societies form with there own unwritten rules and expectations. It is in one of these "Hoovervilles" that the Joads have a wicked confrontation with a vigilant police officer. A woman is shot, Tom and Floyd Knowles nearly become fugitives, and Jim Casey is arrested and thus removed from both the family and society. This sacrificing of self for the good of the group strengthens the bonds between the migrants in the Hooverville, and Casey's experience with fellow inmates in prison gives him an important realization about the power of organized protest. Incidentally, these terrible losses at the Hooverville drive the Joads in fear to what will turn out to be a far better place, and the knowledge that there are others in the same situation who will help lends unifying strength to the family and other migrants.

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.” Unfortunately Native Americans have deep roots with racism and oppression during the last 500 years. “In The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven,” Sherman Alexie tries to show racism in many ways in multiple of his short stories. These stories, engage our history from a Native American viewpoint. Many Native Americans were brutally forced out of their homes and onto Reservations that lacked resources. Later, Indian children were taken from their families and placed into school that were designed to, “Kill the Indian, save the man.” In the book there are multiple short story that are pieces that form a larger puzzle that shows the struggles and their effects on Native Americans. Sherman Alexie shows the many sides of racism, unfair justice and extermination policies and how imagination is key for Native American survival.