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| + | The portrayal and treatment of the drunken Indian related to the three of the readings that we had to read for this week that discussed Indian affairs. That Indian was idle and he got drunk, presumably at the saloon. Helen Hunt Jackson talked some about idleness of the Native Americans. She said that so many Indians have suffered either by the US government or by the white migrants (Jackson, ''A Century of Dishonor''). Also, the fact that we still a couple of Native Americans sitting in the background seems to respond to the fact that during the times of the actual events, the welfare of the Natives '''were''' in the back of the minds of the American people. As said by Red Cloud, the white people in charged of the "Indian Department" help themselves before helping the people who need it! Benjamin Harrison's "Report on Wounded Knee and the Decrease in Indian Land Acreage" at Wounded Knee shows just how in the background the Indians were. He described the Sioux tribes as "naturally warlike" so he dismisses their hardships based on that. -Lauren | ||
I feel that the diaries from Lydia Allen Rudd and Sister Monica provide a glimpse of the hardships that the Western settlers faced. They chronicled the wretched weather, illness, disease, insecurities, and struggles with dire detail. None of the fears and challenges that plagued actual settlers were conveyed in the movie. – Jason Ward | I feel that the diaries from Lydia Allen Rudd and Sister Monica provide a glimpse of the hardships that the Western settlers faced. They chronicled the wretched weather, illness, disease, insecurities, and struggles with dire detail. None of the fears and challenges that plagued actual settlers were conveyed in the movie. – Jason Ward | ||
