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

assignment 8.

1. what is the Indian Removal Act?

The Indian Removal act was at 28 may 1830 in progress by President Andrew Jackson. The law provided in a special designated area for Indians in the current Oklahoma. This law hold in to make negotiations with a lot of indians in this area to make their own country improved.

2. do you think treaties between Native Americans and the American government were profitable for both sides? 

I think it is good for both of them because the American government can make negotiations with them and the Native Americans can improved because of that in their own country.

3. Explain the title "Trail of tears".

Trail of Tears was a series of forced removals of Native American nations from their ancestral homelands in the Southeastern United States to an area west of the Mississippi River that had been designated as Native Territory. The forced relocations were carried out by various government authorities following the passage of the Indian removal act in 1830. The relocated people suffered from exposure, disease, and starvation while en route, and more than four thousand died before reaching their various destinations. The removal included members of the Cherokee, Muskogee, Seminude, Chickasaw, and Choctaw nations. the phrase ''trail of tears'' originated from a description of the removal of the Cherokee nation in 1838.

4. Find a map and pictures which show where the Indians originally lived and where they were moved to as a result of treaties.
(look word document)  

assignment 7

A) 5, 9
B) 3, 13, 14
C) 2, 7
D) 4, 6, 12
E) 1, 8, 10, 11

Assignment 5.

For this assignment we had to watch the film "The Canary Effect". We did this whit the four of us in a les that was canceled. The opinions are divided about this film.

Assignment 6

1. Why is this documentary called "The Canary Effect?"
The Indian plays much the same role in our American society that the Jews played in Germany. Like the miner's canary, the Indian marks the shifts from fresh air to poison gas in our political atmosphere; and our treatment of Indians, even more than our treatment of other minorities, reflects the rise and fall in our democratic faith.

2. Why is it ridiculous to say that Columbus discovered America?
It is ridiculous to say that Columbus discovered America, because the indian already lived here. But the rest of the world didn't know that America exist. Columbus only told the rest of the world what he had seen. He saw the indian living in there teepees. Columbus set as first foreigner a foot in America. Hereafter he returns to Europe and told the rest of world the existence of America. 

3. What have you learnt from watching this film? Explain it in detail.
What we have learnt form " The Canary Effect". The indians were treated really badly in the past. There was very severe discrimination. In the worst case they were killed. There are even 25000 indians assassinated. America is not proud of there actions. Therefor they are covering it op by not telling this piece of history to the new generation. 

Assigment 2

2.1 Where did Hitler get his idea on genocide from? Who inspired Hitler?
After world war I it was going bad with the economic in Germany. If it is going bad, people look for a scapegoat. They want to blame somebody. Hitler blamed the Jews.

2.2 What is genocide according to you?

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