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Comparing And Still The Turtle Watched And The Absolutely True Diary Of A Native American

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Native Americans has taken a real toll because of certain obstacles they must deal with to keep their culture alive. In the book, And Still the Turtle Watched by Shelia Macgill-Callahan shines light on the topic of change and power that has been taken the Native culture away. It stars a turtle that an old Indian carved in a rock who watches the Native land change and their culture dwindle of the power of white people. In both books, And Still the Turtle Watched and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, shows the struggles that Native Americans have to face with change, as well as my experiences at the Powwow. Junior expresses the noticeable change when he decides to attend a new school in the white community. The biggest change he endures is the change in power. That before he entered this whole new world, he was an equal, he was known to be the smart guy, he wasn’t the minority. Going to the new school, …show more content…

The story follows a turtle who was carved into a rock by and old Indian. The turtle is happy to see little Native Americans that come visit him. But throughout the story things start to change. The little Indians stop visiting the turtle, and he starting to see the change in the land he calls home. The water becomes brown and the air is becoming heavier, the turtle is sad by this because his home is changing and being disrespected. Towards the end of the story, some teenagers visit the turtle. He is happy by this because he hadn’t been visited in a while. Things were different, the music hurt his ears. The teens see the turtle and begin to over him with spray paint. In this story, the change that the turtle is seeing symbolizes the change the Native Americans had to face. Their land had been taken over, and this is still happening today. This a struggle of loss in power that the Natives once had, but had to sit and watch it be taken from

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