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The town of Wellpinit and the town of Reardan both have great importance in Arnold Spirit Jr.’s life.The importance of the town of Wellpinit on the Spokane Indian Reservation is that the town had been the home to many generations of his family.The town was where he learned everything he knows, he made many memories, and found Rowdy who saved him many times from the bullies who picked on Arnold, and Rowdy became his best friend. Rowdy is very protective of Arnold, after Arnold was beat up, Rowdy declared

Around the 1840’s, the western land was still fairy new to America with many Americans eager to expand. Americans became extremely curious, wondering what lies in this forsaken land and developed the proposal of manifest destiny. The term manifest destiny “was a brief way to express support for American expansion and the annexation of western lands” (Mountjoy 12). Americans were now longing for a path from the Pacific to the Atlantic coast and hoping to fulfill manifest destiny. To achieve this “Asa

A dreary sadness permeates throughout, the melancholy of a once-great people today destitute and plagued by strife. Although the Reservation physically exists within the United States, it by no means feels that way. In measurements such as standards of living, life expectancy, and median income, Pine Ridge is very remote from America. This colossal remove is the child of both historical

her emotions and troubles with. This made Melinda feel as though she was suppressed with nowhere to go. Arnold, being an Indian trapped in the viscous reservation cycle of poverty and drinking, also feels like he has no bright future ahead in his life.. Because Arnold fears ending up like his fellow reservation-bound Indians, he leaves the reservation schools to attend Reardan, because it is his only chance to ever have a good future.

Movie Smoke Signals For most of my life, the word “Native American” had immediately made me think of feathers, powwows, and a society uncorrupted by civilization. However, in watching the movie Smoke Signals, a movie that depicts the modern Native American culture, I learned many other things. For one, I learned that many of the customs that modern Native Americans have are very similar to my own. I also saw that the family life of the Native Americans in the film had many of the same problems

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In the 19th century Americans saw it as their duty to accomplish what many might believe to be unrealistic, to connect North America from coast to coast. Manifest Destiny is a term that describes the attitude that many Americans had during this era of transformation and progression. Americans claimed the right to bring civilization westward and transform the unknown world into a land where men could live and be free. However, with this movement of progression Westward meant destruction for many Native

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Comparing these two story, both Indian and Mexican are poor. Their poverty makes them living bad. Therefore, Arnold wants to leave the Indian reservation and Mexican wants to migrant to America. Their common target is to leave poor and achieve goodness. Although their original attention are familiar, their way to success are painful in different ways. “Rowdy is the toughest kid on the rez. He is

Alexie visits his family that still live on the reservation every month, and has said, “In any small town, eccentricity is viewed as suspicious. In a tribally-controlled small town, eccentricities are viewed with much more suspicion. His family is the subject of much of his writing, which can be painful; but they will still come to hear him participate in a reading if it is close to the “rez”. Alexie’s books have been described as making the characters as odd and complex as anyone else (Campbell)