Indian reservation Essays

Without a doubt, Indian reservations are one of the poorest communities in the nation. But what exactly contributes to such low employment, poor healthcare, and education? Since the birth of this nation the United States has inquired trillions of dollars from Native Americans; giving Native Americans reparations is our moral way of repaying them for what we stole. The employment rate on reservations is alarming. Most jobs are sourced from the local tribe and the federal government. Most people are

around them. In particular there are seven Indian Reservations just in Minnesota. The White Earth Indian Band is located in the North - Central region of Minnesota in the White Earth Reservation. It is located 68 miles east of Fargo, North Dakota and 225 miles Northwest of Minneapolis, St. Paul, Minnesota. The reservation is contained within the Becker, Clearwater, and Mahnomen counties. White Earth Reservation is composed of many different Indian bands besides White Earth, such as Naytahwaush

A Spokane Indian reservation in Wellpinit, Washington is the setting of Alexie’s book. The Indian reservation gives us a firsthand look of a poverty stricken community. The main character in the book Arnold and his family and mostly all other families living on this reservation are poor. Their community is isolated from society; the main character feels that “the reservation is meant to be a prison” in the sense that they are isolated from

large reservation that encompassed parts of North Dakota, South Dakota, and four other states. After the United States defeated the Indian tribes in the Indian Wars of the 1870s, the US States reclaimed 7.7 million acres of Sioux’s sacred Black Hills and moved the Teton Sioux to Government broke the Lakota’s original reservation into several smaller ones. Not only did the U.S. government reduce the Indians’ acreage, it also splintered the Tribe. In 1889 the United the Standing Rock Reservation. Although

The novel Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie disclosed the stereotypical ideology that people have about Native Americans. As the story of Coyote Springs progressed, Alexie alluded the cultural separation and personal struggle that those individuals who lived in reservation experienced, with their experience of conflict get resolved for better or worse. The Native American try to reshape their identity and live through their falling dreams. Along the way of redefining their own Indian identity,

regarding life on the Spokane Indian Reservation. These stories tell of many serious problems the modern Native Americans are faced with today. Problems like poverty, racism, limited education opportunities, and alcoholism just to name a few. The book incorporates many different characters, including Victor Joseph, Thomas Builds-the-Fire, and Norma Many-Horses. These characters along with many other characters show what life was and still is like on some Indian Reservations. The Lone Ranger and Tonto

True Diary Of A Part Time Indian There are many example of what it mean to be human. It is natural to feel the desire to fit in with a group that is considered to be “normal”, but it can also be very damaging when people are always saying that you 're not. As people grow up they form their own opinions based on their experience. Junior is a Native American teenage who lives on an Indian reservation with him mother, father and sister. Junior sees himself as a poor Indian kid that is trying to change

Junior is a young American Indian who had grown up on a reservation in the western United States. As he grew older, he realized that living on the reservation would lead him nowhere. His only chance of hope at a better life is to leave “the Rez”. Sherman Alexie perfectly captures the culture of an American Indian in his novel, “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian”, by introducing white culture by sending Junior to Reardan High School. Junior’s experience in Reardan allows him to draw

The scarcity of jobs and lack of economic opportunity that occurs in Native American reservations causes for four to eight out of ten adults to be unemployed and, according to Native American Aid, the amount of American Indians living below the poverty line on reservations has reached 63 percent. Needless to say, opportunities come very scarce to Native Americans living on reservations. American Indians are subjected to third world living conditions in the first world country they originated in.

who have faced challenge and hardship in their lives; however, the story “This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona” offers a different element. The main characters, Victor and Thomas Builds-the-Fire, are Native American men who live on an Indian Reservation. While Victor and Thomas come from similar backgrounds, there are both similarities and differences between these two characters that contribute to the story. The author, Sherman Alexie, tells this the story in a third person narration. Alexie

with the hardships of reservation life and the death of his father. Thomas on the other hand is depicted as the wise Native American of tradition who surprisingly is not accepted by his community. Both characters throughout the collection are seen fighting each other; a tug of war of the present and the past. They like other Native Americans are “caught between reservation community and [their] own individuality, [trying] to present [themselves] as the stereotypical warrior Indian[s]” while finding their

Last saved a few seconds ago 1730 Indian Gideon Mauwee establishes a permanent settlement at a prime hunting and fishing place on the Housatonic River in Kent, inviting displaced Indians from all over Connecticut to join him. It is the nucleus of the Schaghticoke tribe. 1763 Golden Hill Indians file protest with the Connecticut General Court that whites had taken over 7/8 of their reservation lands, pastured their hogs and cattle in the cornfields the Paugussetts needed for sustenance, and pulled

changed by the European settlers and the United States government, and for the most part the changes were negative. The government tried to stifle the Sioux culture and religion with schools for children, and force. Many Sioux were forced onto reservations where it became harder for them to live their lives as they normally would. The American history up until then had been Native American, but when the Europeans came, the course of history changed. The Native Americans, particularly the Sioux Tribe

From the ability to hold power are others oppressed and treated with unjust, and at the same time, from the lack of information supplied are others being oppressed. “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” revealed several things from the realities of the Native American reservations, to the distortions of what media and stories impose on our views towards race and Native Americans, as well as the information that we are being misinformed about. It shows how much we have fallen to our oppressors

American Indian culture. His stories of American Indian life on the Reservation move between fact and fiction. The author gives detailed accounts of life with alcoholic parents through his main character. O 'Connell, Joan, et al. "The Relationship Between Patterns of Alcohol Use and Mental and Physical Health Disorders in Two American Indian Populations." Addiction 101.1 (2006): 69-83. Academic Search Complete. Web. 28 Oct. 2015. The Journal article discusses the alcohol use among two reservation-based

Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine revolves around a huge family of Native Americans. The reader is able to learn the history of the family by reading stories of their interactions. The audience is transported into a reservation system where they view these interactions and key components of Native American culture, the parts that remain and the parts that have withered away. As the novel progresses the readers learn about how Native American culture interacts or doesn't interact, with white culture

resources and only offered 3 AP classes. In The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, Arnold realizes he is being robbed from a good education when he receives the same textbook his mom had when she was in high school. He knew no one in the reservation made it to college because none had hope. Mr. P confessed to that he was initially there to kill the dreams and culture of Indians. He made Arnold realize he couldn’t stay in Wellpinit because he wouldn’t get the education

Character) has many different aspirations, but for him it's hard to achieve them because he lives on an Indian Reservation where they have poverty,Alcoholism,and very poor education. Arnold aspires to go to college and be a cartoonist, in order to achieve this aspiration he must leave the reservation and transfer to Rearden(an all white school) which also causes him to lose his best friend from the reservation. While Arnold was telling Rowdy(his best friend) that he was transferring to Rearden, Rowdy didn't

The narrator in the novel “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” is called Arnold Spirit, most people in Wellpinit called him Junior. He lived with his parents, grandmother and sister in Native American’s reservation. However, he left his hometown and study in white people’s school on Reardan in order to have a better life and reach his dream. Wellpinit and Reardon have different quality of life, future and friendship which impact Arnold’s life on vary ways. The most obvious difference

natives were given their rights, such as, in 1924 congress passed the Indian citizen act, but it still didn’t give them their full right.1965 the natives gained the voting rights, but it wasn’t until 1968 that they made the Indian civil rights act. Natives were given freedom of speech, the right to a jury; it also gave most protections of the Bill of Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment. When 1994 rolled around the American Indian religious freedom act was passed but they still had a long way to go