Home Random Page


CATEGORIES:

BiologyChemistryConstructionCultureEcologyEconomyElectronicsFinanceGeographyHistoryInformaticsLawMathematicsMechanicsMedicineOtherPedagogyPhilosophyPhysicsPolicyPsychologySociologySportTourism






The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian

 

- 1492: The beginning of the Holocaust > they were invaded and colonizers killed a lot of people.

- The frontier: imaginary line that separates the world into black and white.

- An Indian is an identity that is performance (can be performed when you want).

- Sherman Alexis has been condemned because he has not rejected his white culture, and to live in the borderlands (el de l’entrevista vista a classe) > “I’m a lover, not a fighter”. < és AMOR.

- Arnold feels as a sort of trader to the race.

- Text about Superman and love to books (his father, he at school and so on > read at class). > He thinks reading is the way of salvation.

- He fights against a legacy of poverty, of economic depression, of social marginalization.

- He enjoys living in the in-between and he believes he is a spy in the house of ethnicity (with black people and white people).

- He is in America talking with an American, but he talks about INDIANS.

- He talks about everything, even his father’s problems with the alcohol.

- (How much of American history do Americans NOT know!!!)

- When he talks about Lincoln loneliness he says “Story telling saved me. I believe in stories. Stories are my Go”.

- Writing literacy becomes his only way of being in the world.

- The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian is a male narrative about the pains of growing in an Indian reservation.

- “I feel important with a pen in my hand” (page 6).

- “So I draw because I feel like it might be my only real chance to escape the reservation”.

 

 

- Indians were dispossessed.

- Indians talk about the Holocaust > the North American Indian Holocaust.

- 1830> the Indian Removal Act > thousands of Native Americans were removed from their land.

- 1838> Trail of Tears (camí de llàgrimes)> the Cherokee were removed to the west ward (without wanting to go) because their territories were too rich. They were moved to Oklahoma where they had to live in desert territories, in the wilderness. About 4000 Cherokee died during the hard removal process.

 

- The History is written by the winners. The losers can only rewrite it.

- In 1867 the federal government began moving the Indians to a few large reservations. One large nation in Oklahoma, the “Indian Territory”. Another was in the Dakota Territory. Managing the reservations would be the job of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

- Sheridan> “Kill the buffalo and you kill the Indians” (because it is their source of survival).

- The Battle of Little Bighorn (1876): general Custer was defeated by the Indians.

- The Dawes Act of 1887.

- The law aimed to give Native Americans private individual ownership of land, eliminate their nomadic lifestyle and encourage them to become farmers.

- The law broke up the reservations in an attempt to end tribal identification.

- Native American children were sent to white-run boarding school for deculturation.



- The plan failed and speculators acquired most of the valuable land with Natives receiving land that was often dry and ill-suited for farming.

- Wounded Knee Massacre.

- The Dawes Act changed the Natives way of live. They turned to Wovoka in 1890, a prophet who claimed the Sioux would regain their greatness by performing a ritual known as the Ghost Dance (la dansa dels esperits).

- The reservations’ officials became alarmed by the arrested Bull as the leader of the movement. He was shot during the arrest. In response, the Sioux gathered at a creek called Wounded Knee in South Dakota and were confronted by the army. In the battle 150 Sioux and 25 soldiers were killed. This ended the armed conflict between whites and Native Americans.

- They completed the acculturation through schools, through education (like nowadays). They try to indoctrinate Indians > they want them to act like white people. > “assimilate American Indians into mainstream culture”.

- Indian children were kidnapped> “niños robados”.

- Richard Henry Pratt> founder and longtime superintendent of the influential Carlisle Indian Industrial School at Carlisle, Pennsylvania. > “kill the Indian to save the man” (educational philosophy of Pratt> just like nowadays).

- Cultural assimilation of Native Americans.

- Helen Hunt Jackson> “It makes difference…when one opens a record of the history of Indians; every page and every year has a dark stain”.

 

- The Book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is a male narrative about the pairs of growing male and Indian in the reservation. It is familiar and personal, but also historical.

- -The only positive role that Arnold has was his grandmother.

- -He's called a traitor because he was looking for a better future outside the reservation.

- -In page 6 Arnold believes that his race could only success in life by writing "So I draw (...) the reservation" (writing is the medicine that hills the wound).

- -In page 11 he's trying to reverse his fate as an Indian, the antisuccess history (he wanted not to become a loser). If he accepts his fate, he will be complicit in his own destruction (page 13). There's no choice except of being poor if he didn't leave.

- -Page 32 "Hope against hope": the teacher is called Mr. P., which could be understood as a reference to Henry Pratt, the founder of the Carlisle boarding School for Indian Children. "We were supposed to kill the Indian to save the kid": transformative education at any level.

- -Page 42 Mr. P. is confessing.

- -Page 57 we found the white/Indian stereotypes.

- -In page 63 there's a picture with the ugly names/stereotypes that Arnold has to fight when he arrives at Reardan.

- -In page 68 he's describing his grandmother, the helper (forgiveness). In pg 160 appears a picture which represents that forgiveness. In next pages the author is criticizing the white people who approach the Indians as primitives, who see them as objects.

- -In page 229 Arnold is encouraged to leave the reservation even by his friend Rowdy.

 


Date: 2015-12-24; view: 777


<== previous page | next page ==>
Page 100: To the burn of her house. | II. Read and try to understand the text. Give detailed answers to the questions given below.
doclecture.net - lectures - 2014-2024 year. Copyright infringement or personal data (0.007 sec.)