assignment 14: face 2 face

1.   Having worked through all the assignments on the webquest, do you think that what happened to the Native Americans could be considered an act of genocide? Why?

-       The definition of genocide is: the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.

This happened tot the native Americans. ‘The White people’ wanted to kill the native Americans. there were 12 million native Americans killed from 1500 to the end of the 19the century.

-       The only genocide we can remember of is the genocide from 1940 to 1945. Where the Germans wanted to exterminate the Jews. We see a parable between the Jews and the Native Americans. The thoughts behind this act, was to kill as much people as possible. Hitler killed a lot of people in small amount of time. The ‘White people’ killed a lot of people in a long period of 400 years. But they both killed a lot of people, so you can compare those two. Because a genocide is an extermination of a nation, there is nothing included about time.

2.   How can we prevent such acts of genocide from happening again?

-       To prevent genocide, we have to understand it. Education is a big part of it. People have to learn about it from a young age. You have to know the negative consequences, about what a genocide infects a certain kind of group. Because then you pay attention to no discrimination and no racism.

-       In a national appointment from 1948. The country’s agreed that in a younger stage of genocide, the government has to tackle this situation. But in the future there will always be racism. We think the government has be more stringent with racism. They have to equalise and protect the black, the Native Americans and other vulnerable groups. They can do this by, punish the ‘bad’ people harder if they do something what is out of hand.

3.   Can you explain the title of this web quest?

-       The title is ‘back to the future’, we have looked back to the genocide of the native Americans. We all know it was a tough time for the native Americans. Nowadays  after crisis you saw a upcoming flow of world leader that are racist. For example Geert wilders, Donald Trump and Marine Le Pen from France. If we fulfill those dreams of them, we will discriminate on a big scale and maybe even worse like they did to the Native Americans.

4.   How can we create awareness of the situation of the Native Americans in the past and the present?

-       In America we have to make awareness, just to talk about it, bring it in the media and teach this on school. I know it’s not a part of the history, where you should be proud of. But the new generation has to know about the Native Americans. Now they live in camps, get no money. They just don’t have the opportunity to better their lives.

-       In the Netherlands they have to teach it on schools, because now we only learn the Jew genocide. It is important that we also know what is really going on in this world and not the soft version of the real story.

5.   How can we link this to the present IS situation?

-       I think you can’t compare those two, because those situations are very different. With the IS there is a group that want to rule the world. They use violence to achieve this. With the native Americans genocide, there is a group that wants to exterminate as much as Native Americans.

-       If I have to link it, I would say that trump doesn’t wants foreign people in his country. And the ‘White people’ wouldn’t want the Native Americans in their country.

assignment 12

There are several themes in the book: Identity Hopes and dreams Home Education Race Traditions and customs Poverty Literature and writing Mortality ​ Compare the themes in the book to the problems discussed in the documentary "The Canary Effect". Record your findings and post them on your blog. 1. hopes and dreams, Junior is in the begin of the book hoping to become very rich and this moves on in the whole book till the end. 2. identity, junior and his family are like Indians but they won't get the cultural identity anymore because they want to be like every other American and that they are not different. but they actually always be. 3. poverty, he and his family are not having that good as you think in a great for example: in the beginning of the book is he explaining the readers why he and his family are not having it so good, he had a dog but he went very ill and his parents couldn't pay for a operation because they don't have te money for it and have to spend it on things that are very useful. So you see his family has to make a lot of choices and sometimes they are very hard to take.

Assignment 13

1. Who is Numanah?

 Numanah is the head man of the Indians. They often call Numanah grandfather. 

2. What is the significance of the title?

He is stuck in the sacred circle. He tries to run away, but he doesn't know where he can go to. 

3. What does the opening line remind you of in regard to religion?

It looks like he is praying to God and he asks for grace. This reminds us of God, curch and praying.

4. Look at the list of themes in assignment 12, once again, and decide which of these relate to the poem and why. Give examples from the poem to explain your answers.

• Hopes and dreams: because he asks for grace.
• Home: because he is searching for a place where he wants to stay.
• Identity: because he doesn't know his identity.

5. What "shame" does the poet refer to? 

 He's ashamed of himself, because he is an Indian.

6. How does the idea of living in-between cultures relate to the themes mentioned in assignment 12 and use examples from the poem to explain your answer.

• Identity: Numanah has an identity crisis. He doesn’t feel comfortable with his own people.
• Hopes and dreams: Numanah has many hopes and dreams to run away to a better place.
• Home: Numanah is searching for a home.
• Education: Numanah doesn't go to school.
• Race: This story is about the Indian race.
• Traditions and customs: The poem talks about some traditions of the Indians. For example: “I never asked to be the son of a stained mattress who contemplated venison stew and knew the shame hidden in grease clouds stuck to the wall behind the woodstove where Grandmother cooked.”
• Poverty: Numanah has no money to start another life somewhere else.
• Mortality: We think Numanah is affraid to die.

assigment 11

The use of "black humor" The trickster Treaties The quest for cultural identity Choose two of these characteristics and find examples in the book. Give quotes and page numbers. Post everything in your blog. 1. The use of Black humor examples: "Our dentist believed that Indians only felt half as much pain as white people did." Chapter 1 "And because you're Indian you start believing you're destined to be poor." Chapter 2 2. The quest for cultural identity example: "OF COURSE THEY HAD A BIG PARTY! OF COURSE THEY WERE DRUNK! THEY'RE INDIANS!!" Chapter 27

Assignment 10

• Why did Mr. P say, "Son, you're going to find more hope the farther and farther you walk away from this sad, sad, sad reservation"?

 The only thing the Indians got taught is to give up. He heas to take his hope and go somewhere other people have hope. So he doesn't lost his hope.

• Give 2 examples of "black comedy" in the book. Give quotes and page numbers.

 "Our dentist believed that Indians only felt half as much pain as white people did." Chapter 1

"And because you're Indian you start believing you're destined to be poor." Chapter 2

 

• Explain the significance of the use of drawings in the book.

He draws because words are too unpredictable and too limited, if you draw a picture everybody can understand it. He also draws because he wants to talk to the world and he wants the world to pay attention to him. So it is for the reader more easily to understand the book and imagine how it is.

 

• Explain how Arnold is caught between two worlds and how this is connected to the title of the book.

 He goes to school outside the reservation and lives in the reservation. This makes him believe he's a part-time Indian.

 

• How would you characterize the relationship between Rowdy and Junior at the end of the novel? Can the two ever really be best friends again? Are they part-time friends or real friends?

 Because of a fight the relationship was getting less more important but at the end the are friends but Junior is leaving them all so they will be part-time friends.

 

• While the Pow-wow sounds like fun, Arnold wants nothing to do with it. Why?

 He is afraid that they will hurt them, because maybe they get drunk when they dance and have fun.

 

• "Ever since the Spokane Indian Reservation was founded back in 1881, nobody in my family ever lived anywhere else. We Spirits stay in one place. We are absolutely tribal. For good or bad, we don't leave one another. And now my mother and father had lost two kids to the outside world."
  
  Explain how Arnold's parents had lost two children to the outside world.

 Arnold goes to a school outside the reservation and Arnold's sister, Mary, also leaves the reservation. For their parents is outside the reservation, outside the world. So they lost two kids out the outside world. 

 

• Mary describes her experience eating fry bread at a restaurant in an email to Arnold. Why is it significant that Mary can still get fry bread even though she's no longer on the Spokane Reservation?

 Because their grandmother always made fry bread.

• What does it mean to "kill the Indian to save the child"? [5.40]

You're supposed to make you give up being Indian. Your songs and stories and language and dancing. Everything you weren't trying to kill Indian people. You were trying to kill Indian culture.

 

Made by: Isabelle and Mayra

assigment 9

1. What is 'home' for the kids in the boarding schools?
'Home' represents the indian culture fighting for survival amidst the widespread repression in the boarding schools
The dream to have a home. So far from the reality.

2. What was the impact of these boarding schools on the traditional?
The tradition will slowly disappear and get abolished. And because of these boarding schools they couldn't find a home.

By Mayra