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Lee Maracle War Analysis

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Lee Maracle was a well-known First Nations author. She was also a significant Indigenous voice in Canada. The poem War written by Lee Maracle is based on the Indigenous people and their experience. The poem contains a very sad and emotional tone as it tells about the struggles and challenges which Indigenous people face during wars and other times. Through this poem, Lee Maracle raises a voice for all the Indigenous people and their families who are suffering. The poem talks about the injustice that many Indigenous people have experienced in their life and shows the pain of those people by making the poem's tone sad. The author starts the poem by telling how blood from Indigenous people's bodies was flowing. How their voices were not being …show more content…

As they say that they cannot deny any black heritage as they are also part of the Indigenous group. Lee Maracle also includes some deep thoughts which she thinks about the Indigenous communities. She believes all Indigenous people are fighting to make their place in a different country and leaving behind their home country it also raises questions or arguments about their humanity and loyalty to their home country but people also have to think about themselves before they think about their country but that cannot be the case with all of the people. In the country that Indigenous people go to that country, most people think of or call thieves, liars, or bloodsuckers but that is not the reality of those people which no Indigenous people would like. Some people were loving their life whereas others were being felt guilty as they wished this world should stop butchery and slaughter. They also keep on coming with their scars to rewrite history by shedding blood from their body as people who betray themselves and their home country for their

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