Annotated Bibliography
Apess, William. “An Indian’s Looking-Glass for the White Man.” American Protest Literature 2008.
The main argument seems to be that of all nations coming together as one and uniting. He also argues or condemns laws that enforced racial segregation at many levels of society. Many of his references and ideologies center around God and religious association from the view point of the white man. The author in this passage demonstrates how the white man views and would abuse his gained trust with the Native Americans and betray them at almost any angle, because he sees them as inferior people. The image that the Native American has of the white man is also discussed in this passage. Although the author intertwines Jesus and God, as in to demonstrate, with the use of a verse from the bible from St Paul, that if all men looks beyond what’s on the outside and looked to the heart of all, then there would be equality and no racial judgment.
This passage is a useful source for my topic because it portrays a person’s meaningful biased view point of what his thoughts are from his perspective as a third person from a Native American, to that of the white man and God and Jesus. This source can be biased or objective, it all depends on how it is seen as by the reader. The goal of this source is to show the audience another credible point of view which depicts the Native American, the white man, and Jesus. Either of the races, white and Native American have their own ideology of one another and the neutral party is the God and Jesus that see beyond what is on the outside and see into the hearts of man and see them all as equal.
This article has not fully impacted my thought process or changed it, but it has added a new view point or perspective that I can incorporate and create a better more circular understanding of what I am trying to achieve with this protest literature.
Eastman, Charles. “From From the Deep Woods to Civilization.” American Protest Literature 2008.
The author in this passage depicts himself as one-quarter Native White American. The following quote, “savage gentleness and native refinement”, is one of his golden lines that really stood out for me and my work. In his work he really tries to ensure that there is no cultural line or preference while he is using several different voices for the protest writing. He does not choose one culture over another rather he finds a so called, borderland space.
This is by far one of my most powerful sources. As Eastman puts it himself, “Why do we find so much evil and wickedness practiced by the nations composed of professedly, ‘Christian’ individuals? The pages of history are full of licensed murder and the plundering of weaker and less developed peoples, and obviously the world to-day has not outgrown this system. Behind the material and intellectual splendor of our civilization, primitive savagery, cruelty and lust hold sway, undiminished, and as it seems, unheeded.” The quote is powerful, straight to the point, and possibly the high light in a nut shell depicts of the deep dark ideology of the meaning of this authors passage. The goal of this sources if to show the reader, yet another perspective of another Native/White American, that holds a very unbiased view on the obvious problems with Native American freedom. If someone was to ask me what this passage is about, I would direct them to that half paragraph quote.
Eastman’s passage is absolutely helpful to me and my final work of protest for the Native American people. This article had a strong impact through my thoughts, as I try to find better understanding of the divide between the white man and Native American. This passage definitely uses a unbiased equal representation of protest for the Native American without directly blaming or pointing fingers.
Aupi, Cokata. "Ration Day" When the Rain Sings. David Gale. New York, New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1999. 15. Print.
Ration Day is a poem about keeping the pride within the Lakota tribe as the white man treats them as if they are animals for cataloging. This is a useful source because poetry is a good form of protest that can be spread and communicated to other people to increase numbers. It helps shape my argument by depicting the authors views or inner thoughts, in short but meaningful ways about him foreseeing the future of his tribe. The vision here also means to never give up.
I do believe strongly that it is a useful source in terms of depicting a personal view or perception of what the current tribe situation is and its future outlook. I don’t believe that this source is extremely biased, but there is a hint of biased towards the native Americans. The goal of this source is to depict ones view and vision of the future for this particular tribe, and to do so, the author cannot avoid the bias.
This source has not changed my thought process but has indeed helped strengthen and shape my project. The evidence that the source displays, shows another rather grim look at the native American fate from their own eyes.
Yotanka, Tatanku. "This Land Belongs To Us" Native Universe: Voices of Indian America. Gerald McMaster and Clifford E. Trafzer; [By Native American Tribal Leaders, Writers, Scholars, And Storytellers ; With A Foreword By W. Richard West]. n.p.: Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2004. 192. Print.
The main argument of This Land Belongs To Us is that the white man took the one thing that is the root of Native Americans and that is there freedom. The freedom depicted in this source demonstrates that Native Americans live like nomads, they are constantly on the move, they do not live in cities and villages, enslaved and jailed within their own society. This article is about comparing the differences between Native American priorities and the white man’s priorities. The Native American never went up against the white man and tried to push their ways of life onto the white man, but the white man came over and forced his way of life onto the Native American.
This is a useful source, in that it is another aspect of a Native American author that is opening up his inner thoughts and views of the white man and how the Native American is hurting because of the white man’s views. Although this article seems to be moderately biased, when compared to my other sources, this article has more of a novel approach to the depiction of Native American disrespect. The goal of this source is to demonstrate another view point of a Native American author, the way that the Native American was disrespected and pushed aside.
I do believe that this article has helped shape my though process and understanding of the Native Americans point of view. Because of the authors specific and in-depth insight on the views of the Native American, and the depiction of the white man, has also helped organize and expand on my paper with more support.
Lewis-Jose, Patrick. "In the Rain" When the Rain Sings. David Gale. New York, New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1999. 45-49. Print.
Knife, D. Danielle. “The Fight.” When the Rain Sings. David Gale. New York, New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1999. 17. Print
The main argument in this passage is confusion with many unanswered questions. The author depicts the scene of how the man came and took over, then in humiliation placed their tribes into reservations. Even though they ask to be left alone, they become targets of the man’s bullets and guns. The tribe tried to fight back with no avail. This passage is about a cry for help and a cry for answers. What did they do to deserve this type of treatment, and why won’t they just leave them alone.
The source is reliable and useful for my project. The source is objective, similar to that of a first person encounter of what was going on. The goal of the source is to possibly find any answers to why and what was going on and why are they being humiliated.
I do believe this source was helpful to me and my project. It helps shape my argument in terms of, it being a subjective view of the tribes being relocated to reservations. The authors first hand view of this going on as a child with many questions. It has not really changed the way I perceive this topic I have chosen, rather gives me an objective vantage point of another author as a child.
Dorsky, Daniel, et al. The Spirit of Crazy Horse. Alexandria, Va.: PBS Video, 1990.
The documentary starts with a Native American describing their surroundings, and a little about their tribe and their ways. In the introduction he also discusses how the white man came, and the reason they came to take over was for gold. The tribes fought back for many years. The South Hills of North Dakota is where this documentary takes place of the Lakota tribe. The white man took over and capitalizes on the land that many people visit yearly. The area is located around Mount Rushmore. The black hills are having trouble with the Native Americans assimilating to the changes that the white man brought. Their relocation reservation is located 60 miles north of the black hills. There are many firsthand encounters and interviews of the Native Americans. The main argument here is that the white man came in, took over, and their primary motive in doing so was for gold and now it’s about the vacation site of Mount Rushmore that they capitalize on a great deal annually. In the process the white man pushed the Native Americans to a useless reservation site 60 miles from their native lands.
Yes I do think this a valuable source for my topic of Indian protest literature. This is comparable to my other sources, but has much more insight and first hand encounters of what is importation and supportive of my topic of choice. The information is reliable, because of the source that it is from and also the notoriety of the writers and tribal people who were involved in this documentary. Most of the source is objective but during some parts of the documentary is also biased, but how can it not be, considering what the Native Americans endured while losing their land.
This source is helpful and definitely useful to help in shaping my project. It is a documentary that has a great deal of information, knowledge and insight on the Native American. This source will be used in many different aspects of the project to bring together some of the arguments relating to the treatment and movements of the Native American. It has not completely changed how I think about my topic, but rather given me greater insight into the tribal life and a different aspect and view on the Native American struggles and their way of life and how these daily needs where changed because of the white man.
The main argument seems to be that of all nations coming together as one and uniting. He also argues or condemns laws that enforced racial segregation at many levels of society. Many of his references and ideologies center around God and religious association from the view point of the white man. The author in this passage demonstrates how the white man views and would abuse his gained trust with the Native Americans and betray them at almost any angle, because he sees them as inferior people. The image that the Native American has of the white man is also discussed in this passage. Although the author intertwines Jesus and God, as in to demonstrate, with the use of a verse from the bible from St Paul, that if all men looks beyond what’s on the outside and looked to the heart of all, then there would be equality and no racial judgment.
This passage is a useful source for my topic because it portrays a person’s meaningful biased view point of what his thoughts are from his perspective as a third person from a Native American, to that of the white man and God and Jesus. This source can be biased or objective, it all depends on how it is seen as by the reader. The goal of this source is to show the audience another credible point of view which depicts the Native American, the white man, and Jesus. Either of the races, white and Native American have their own ideology of one another and the neutral party is the God and Jesus that see beyond what is on the outside and see into the hearts of man and see them all as equal.
This article has not fully impacted my thought process or changed it, but it has added a new view point or perspective that I can incorporate and create a better more circular understanding of what I am trying to achieve with this protest literature.
Eastman, Charles. “From From the Deep Woods to Civilization.” American Protest Literature 2008.
The author in this passage depicts himself as one-quarter Native White American. The following quote, “savage gentleness and native refinement”, is one of his golden lines that really stood out for me and my work. In his work he really tries to ensure that there is no cultural line or preference while he is using several different voices for the protest writing. He does not choose one culture over another rather he finds a so called, borderland space.
This is by far one of my most powerful sources. As Eastman puts it himself, “Why do we find so much evil and wickedness practiced by the nations composed of professedly, ‘Christian’ individuals? The pages of history are full of licensed murder and the plundering of weaker and less developed peoples, and obviously the world to-day has not outgrown this system. Behind the material and intellectual splendor of our civilization, primitive savagery, cruelty and lust hold sway, undiminished, and as it seems, unheeded.” The quote is powerful, straight to the point, and possibly the high light in a nut shell depicts of the deep dark ideology of the meaning of this authors passage. The goal of this sources if to show the reader, yet another perspective of another Native/White American, that holds a very unbiased view on the obvious problems with Native American freedom. If someone was to ask me what this passage is about, I would direct them to that half paragraph quote.
Eastman’s passage is absolutely helpful to me and my final work of protest for the Native American people. This article had a strong impact through my thoughts, as I try to find better understanding of the divide between the white man and Native American. This passage definitely uses a unbiased equal representation of protest for the Native American without directly blaming or pointing fingers.
Aupi, Cokata. "Ration Day" When the Rain Sings. David Gale. New York, New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1999. 15. Print.
Ration Day is a poem about keeping the pride within the Lakota tribe as the white man treats them as if they are animals for cataloging. This is a useful source because poetry is a good form of protest that can be spread and communicated to other people to increase numbers. It helps shape my argument by depicting the authors views or inner thoughts, in short but meaningful ways about him foreseeing the future of his tribe. The vision here also means to never give up.
I do believe strongly that it is a useful source in terms of depicting a personal view or perception of what the current tribe situation is and its future outlook. I don’t believe that this source is extremely biased, but there is a hint of biased towards the native Americans. The goal of this source is to depict ones view and vision of the future for this particular tribe, and to do so, the author cannot avoid the bias.
This source has not changed my thought process but has indeed helped strengthen and shape my project. The evidence that the source displays, shows another rather grim look at the native American fate from their own eyes.
Yotanka, Tatanku. "This Land Belongs To Us" Native Universe: Voices of Indian America. Gerald McMaster and Clifford E. Trafzer; [By Native American Tribal Leaders, Writers, Scholars, And Storytellers ; With A Foreword By W. Richard West]. n.p.: Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2004. 192. Print.
The main argument of This Land Belongs To Us is that the white man took the one thing that is the root of Native Americans and that is there freedom. The freedom depicted in this source demonstrates that Native Americans live like nomads, they are constantly on the move, they do not live in cities and villages, enslaved and jailed within their own society. This article is about comparing the differences between Native American priorities and the white man’s priorities. The Native American never went up against the white man and tried to push their ways of life onto the white man, but the white man came over and forced his way of life onto the Native American.
This is a useful source, in that it is another aspect of a Native American author that is opening up his inner thoughts and views of the white man and how the Native American is hurting because of the white man’s views. Although this article seems to be moderately biased, when compared to my other sources, this article has more of a novel approach to the depiction of Native American disrespect. The goal of this source is to demonstrate another view point of a Native American author, the way that the Native American was disrespected and pushed aside.
I do believe that this article has helped shape my though process and understanding of the Native Americans point of view. Because of the authors specific and in-depth insight on the views of the Native American, and the depiction of the white man, has also helped organize and expand on my paper with more support.
Lewis-Jose, Patrick. "In the Rain" When the Rain Sings. David Gale. New York, New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1999. 45-49. Print.
Knife, D. Danielle. “The Fight.” When the Rain Sings. David Gale. New York, New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1999. 17. Print
The main argument in this passage is confusion with many unanswered questions. The author depicts the scene of how the man came and took over, then in humiliation placed their tribes into reservations. Even though they ask to be left alone, they become targets of the man’s bullets and guns. The tribe tried to fight back with no avail. This passage is about a cry for help and a cry for answers. What did they do to deserve this type of treatment, and why won’t they just leave them alone.
The source is reliable and useful for my project. The source is objective, similar to that of a first person encounter of what was going on. The goal of the source is to possibly find any answers to why and what was going on and why are they being humiliated.
I do believe this source was helpful to me and my project. It helps shape my argument in terms of, it being a subjective view of the tribes being relocated to reservations. The authors first hand view of this going on as a child with many questions. It has not really changed the way I perceive this topic I have chosen, rather gives me an objective vantage point of another author as a child.
Dorsky, Daniel, et al. The Spirit of Crazy Horse. Alexandria, Va.: PBS Video, 1990.
The documentary starts with a Native American describing their surroundings, and a little about their tribe and their ways. In the introduction he also discusses how the white man came, and the reason they came to take over was for gold. The tribes fought back for many years. The South Hills of North Dakota is where this documentary takes place of the Lakota tribe. The white man took over and capitalizes on the land that many people visit yearly. The area is located around Mount Rushmore. The black hills are having trouble with the Native Americans assimilating to the changes that the white man brought. Their relocation reservation is located 60 miles north of the black hills. There are many firsthand encounters and interviews of the Native Americans. The main argument here is that the white man came in, took over, and their primary motive in doing so was for gold and now it’s about the vacation site of Mount Rushmore that they capitalize on a great deal annually. In the process the white man pushed the Native Americans to a useless reservation site 60 miles from their native lands.
Yes I do think this a valuable source for my topic of Indian protest literature. This is comparable to my other sources, but has much more insight and first hand encounters of what is importation and supportive of my topic of choice. The information is reliable, because of the source that it is from and also the notoriety of the writers and tribal people who were involved in this documentary. Most of the source is objective but during some parts of the documentary is also biased, but how can it not be, considering what the Native Americans endured while losing their land.
This source is helpful and definitely useful to help in shaping my project. It is a documentary that has a great deal of information, knowledge and insight on the Native American. This source will be used in many different aspects of the project to bring together some of the arguments relating to the treatment and movements of the Native American. It has not completely changed how I think about my topic, but rather given me greater insight into the tribal life and a different aspect and view on the Native American struggles and their way of life and how these daily needs where changed because of the white man.