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Since the white man came to the Americas, the Native American’s were always given the short end of the deal. In “Blue Winds Dancing”, the narrator provides us with a first hand experience and view of the white man in a native american’s perspective. The Narrator feels degraded by the white man’s ways and even captured in a sense. He even contemplates on whether it is a life worth living.
The Narrator makes it very clear that he feels degraded in many ways by the white man. “learn that one’s race is behind”(1). In the story the Narrator is constantly told the Native Americans are behind in all aspects of life . “ It is terrible to sit in class and hear men tell you that your people worship sticks of wood” (1). The white man has made of joke of the Native American’s religion since they’ve first met. The white man has always .“ Then again, maybe I am not tired. Maybe I'm licked. Maybe I am just not smart enough to grasp these things that go to makeup civilization” (1). The Narrator expresses how degraded he feels by questioning if he is intelligent enough to grasp the concept of the white man’s society.
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Throughout “Blue Winds Dancing”, the Narrator contemplates living in what he considers a society not worth it.
“I am weary of trying to keep up this bluff of being civilized”(1). The narrator in many instances appears to be depressed. Depression is a crazy emotion that scientist still are trying to find cures for. “No constant peering into the maelstrom of one's mind; no worries about grades and honors; no hysterical preparing for life until that life is half over; no anxiety about one's place in the thing they call Society”(1). The Narrator feels that the white man life is wasteful and stressful for over half his life . “I want to hear the drums and feel the blue whispering winds” (1). In this quote the narrator shows why he doesn't value the white man’s
society. It is evident in history that the native Americans have been wronged in almost every way by the white man so it is not surprising that the narrator feels he is captured by the white men. “These men in caps and overcoats and dirty overalls living on the outskirts of civilization are free, but the pay the price of being free in civilization” (2). “But we are inferior. It is terrible to have to feel inferior; to have to read reports of intelligence tests, and learn that one's race is behind” (1). “I am tired. I want to walk again among the ghost-birches. I want to see the leaves turn in autumn, the smoke rise from”(1). After experiencing the white man's world the Narrator began to fearing the white man’s ways. He fears that he would lose his roots, they have no respected, and he was afraid to conform. In the end, the narrator turns away from the white man’s ways and returns to his people. The white men may see the Narrator as an outcast to society however the Narrator does not mind. He actually welcomes it. Even though two people may see or experience the same thing their perspective on what happened or what it is can be completely different. In the short story this can be anymore true.
In The White Man’s Indian, Robert Berkhoffer analyzes how Native Americans have maintained a negative stereotype because of Whites. As a matter of fact, this book examines the evolution of Native Americans throughout American history by explaining the origin of the Indian stereotype, the change from religious justification to scientific racism to a modern anthropological viewpoint of Native Americans, the White portrayal of Native Americans through art, and the policies enacted to keep Native Americans as Whites perceive them to be. In the hope that Native Americans will be able to overcome how Whites have portrayed them, Berkhoffer is presenting
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We all are Gods creation, and no doubt He made us better than we think we are, everyone is equal and everyone has great qualities inside them and this leads to the second point which is about equality. Equality means that everyone in the society is treated similarly, no matter what race they belong to, but after reading this emotion-filled poem, it is declared that the native people are not treated equally. Mercredi states “my red face hurts as I watch a white man hiding his white sheet beneath his suit and tie condemn me because of one man's greed sentencing me to an early death my red face hurts as he smiles (Mercredi: 13-18)” The poet exemplifies that how the white people have more privileges and rights in the country, they have more power because of their color and due to this overwhelmed power they possess, they are extremely greedy. The white people treat the natives like slaves and make them work like animals until their life is close to an end. After this convoluted torture, they still are smiling. The white people have a heart like a stone because they have committed so many injustices that they can’t redeem their
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This statement suggests that the quality of life for colored people in this time period is worse than being dead. It is implied by Dubois in this essay that not only would the white people be happier if the black people were all killed, but also that the black people would be happier due to them not having to face the hatred and segregation that they were subject to at the time. Dubois makes a sound argument that the white people in this time period have a problem with a black man making the same amount of money as them and getting the same education as them. They do not believe the black man is their equal. He uses the colored man in the essay to bring to light an extreme solution to the apparent problem, which in turn makes the white people, and the reader, open their eyes to the glaring issues inherent in racist behaviour and
Yet, he remains very optimistic in not letting his misfortune please what is considered the “white-man” in the poem. Langston Hughes’s state of affairs. They send me to eat in the kitchen. When company comes.
“Blue Winds Dancing” is a short story by Thomas S. Whitecloud. The story is about the narrator a Native American student living in a white civilized culture. The narrator portrays the struggle he faces between a civilized and uncivilized culture. His struggle is both internal and external as he searches for his true identity. The narrator finds himself with contrasting views of both cultures making it harder to identify with one.
The story chronicles situations that illustrate the common stereotypes about Natives. Through Jackson’s humble personality, the reader can grasp his true feelings towards White people, which is based off of the oppression of Native Americans. I need to win it back myself” (14). Jackson also mentions to the cop, “I’m on a mission here. I want to be a hero” (24).
William Apess then asks his mostly white audience to reexamine their Christian values along with their prejudices. His essay acknowledges that unless the discrimination and prejudices that plague the white man over the other races disappear, then there won’t be peace in the Union.
We remember Mrs. Lithebe's words, "For what else are we born?" and we see that there are some white men who do care. We also learn of James Jarvis's suffering and fear.
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For example, in the local school, stereotypes such as the image of the ‘wild man’ are consolidated by claiming that there was cannibalism among the indigenous people of the northwest coast (Soper-Jones 2009, 20; Robinson 2010, 68f.). Moreover, native people are still considered to be second-class citizens, which is pointed out by Lisamarie’s aunt Trudy, when she has been harassed by some white guys in a car: “[Y]ou’re a mouthy Indian, and everyone thinks we’re born sluts. Those guys would have said you were asking for it and got off scot-free”
But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free”. Which shows how even though the Emancipation Proclamation freed the African Americans from slavery, they still are not free because of segregation. He then transitions to the injustice and suffering that the African Americans face. He makes this argument when he proclaims, “We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream”.