I only have one thing on my mind.
What is the importance of the ownl in my movie thunderheart.
2. What is the meaning of the dog in this movie and Native American Cultural

Pondering

I have watch Thunderheart times and I am still pondering on what character William Dawes said. He said “Helping people caught in the illusion in the past come to terms with the realities of the present.” This statement both me, I wonder way can’t these people have the past. It is like William was saying that these people can’t hold on to there culture and tradition. For me it is the same concept as the Amish people and know one tries to make them come to turns with the present.

Thunder Heart

Last night I want my more Thunder Heart. I really enjoyed my movie. It was ironic that the FBI sent a guy who look more European and Irish than he looked Native American to go to the Reservation to bleed into his cultural. The only problem was they sent a guy who had no connections to his cultural or even remembered his dad, who is the reason he is Native America. I enjoyed the fact at the end of the movie he became more in tuned with his heritage.
I didn't like how the government was trying to push the fact that they were drilling. I hated the fact that they government was killing off the people who where trying to get the truth out.

Essay Topics3

Well I really don’t know what I want to write about, but the whole time I have reading Alexie works I have wonder why done of the character has know stereotypical Indian names. So I might write about the names in the movie Smoke Signals.

I also like the Alexie interview. I thought about compare what Alexie said and how it is not so far fetch from being black in American.

I could also write about the relationship between Thomas and Victor and Victor’s dad.

The Alexie Interview

Alexie interview touch my heart and I could relate to the thing he was talking about. One of statements that caught my attention was when Alexie said, “the United States and South Africa only difference is about 50 years.” Alexie is so right; I have said that for years. People act like it is so weird that South African has not to long ago gotten out of apartheid. Or that black South African is still in more poverty that white south Africans.

Finding out that Alexie has trouble with grammatical errors makes me feel comforted about my grammatical issue. Most of the times I feel like good writer write great the first time and they just revise their ideals on the second draft. But, Alexie proved to me that even the great book sellers have trouble with their own grammatical issues.

This is so late

I can easily tell that Smoke Signals is based off this story. For that reason it makes me wonder why does Alexie chose to give Thomas a Indian accent in the movie, but not in the story? Why does Thomas and Victor get along so much better in the book? Why does the movie show how much hate victor have for his father but yet in the story victor is content with his father almost like he still loves him.

Lets play "Nazis and Jews"

“That the ideas will make sense when, and not before, Euroamerica find it as ‘harmless’ for a its children to ‘Nazis and Jews’ as it always has “Cowboy and Indians”

This sentence caught my attention. The sentence made me wonder way is it okay that the children play ‘cowboy and Indian’ and not for them to play ‘Nazis and Jews’. At first I was like it is just ‘cowboy and Indian’. Then I began to think that playing ‘cowboy and Indian’ is almost the same concept as playing ‘Nazis and Jews’ the only difference is that our society has aloud the genocide of Native Americans to be okay but yet feel as if the genocide of Jews is more horrific. Don’t get me wrong what happen to the Jews was awful, but it is just as awful how Native Americans were killed off so silently by diseases. Another reason society feels for the Jews and not the Indians is because in some people they still see Native Americans as savages and not as people. Reason 3 is because the Holocaust has happen in some American life time and they got to experience the war tares of fighting the Germens were as most Americans don’t remember or got to experience the genocide of the Native Americans.

Hiding from the Call

They will take me

Already they come;

even as I breathe

they are waiting for me

to finish my dying

we old ones

take such

a long time.

To me I think she it talking about the spirits waiting on her to die but part of me think she is talk about something else. Line 30 leads me to believe that she has already had a near death experience. Line 31 is like they are waiting by her bedside for that last breath. In the poems it is almost like she is tring to run from the spirits. She wants people to hide her were they can't find her.

offend every1 or knowone

In the begin of “Crimes against Humanity” I was like this is so true way do the Native American have to think it is just fun and games. This reminded me of the issue Atlanta had with the Marta Bus station and in name the lines. They wanted to call the gold line yellow, which can be taking as a racial offensive comment in Asian community. Atlanta took a stand and change the name from yellow to gold much like Sports should take a stand and make the names of sporting teams either none offense or offense to everyone.

Little bit of indian = little bit of Native American writings

Louis feels as if white people think just because they have some Indian in there family tree they can call themselves Indian. In return gives them the right to study “their culture” and write about what they have research and call it Native American writer. Louis also says he thinks of them as thieves, but the last book they wrote he ‘like it, a little”(26). Louis saying he “like it, a little” (26) is like they are only touching on true Native American writing a little.

Alexie concepts lives in Erdrich's story

Erdrich story is almost as if he took all Alexie concepts and twisted them in one women name Fluer. Fluer is a beautiful woman who has wild horse ways but is yet tame. Fluer has had something bad done to her but I don’t know if she was being raped or if she was being beat up. Fluer gets revenged. She kills them and stick the men in the freeze and create a scene as if they were just playing cards, which is the hold reason why the men went after her because she keep winning the card game. When it comes to Fluer and men the men are doom to die when they get close to her, it is like she is curse.

In Result : Death

In the beginning of the poem it shows how much Alexie read and watch cowboy moves with his father. The poem describes stereotypes that often happen in moves and books. The poem then goes on to show the mixing of whites with Indians and how mixing the races makes the stereotypes even more complex. At the very end of the poem Alexie says, “In the Great American Indian novel, when it is finally written, all of the white people will be Indians and all the Indians will be ghosts”(41-3). To me this has two meanings. One of the meanings is that in Americans history all white people will have some form of Indian in them and the Indians will have some form of white in them. The second means is all white will have so Indian in them but all the full blood Indians will be dead.

Ranch=Change

Ranch life seems to have change the old lady for the worst. The old lady used to be pretty back in the day before she started ranch life. Because of the ranch life she seem to have turned into this bad ass girls with a smart mouth, and whou rides bikes and managers a ranch and the group of men that work on the ranch. Even through she is tough the old lady seems to have a the hots for the new rancher. She gets upset after the boy doesn't take her hints with having him eat in the house and making him pies.

It made me wondering way is it that any time a women is successful in a story she is not married and is tring to find her a husband know matter how old she is. And why is it that a women that has a typical man job is a very masculinity.

life SUCKS when your Not Society normal

The whole story is awful to me, mainly because there are two men who are in love with each other. But yet they can't be toghether,because of society. The reader knows that Jack nad Ennis are aware of society, because after they finish for the first time they dont talk about their new experience. As time goes on the story unravels where Jack becomes more open with his sexuality than Ennis, who just ignored the fact that he is not the stereotype cowboys. Ennis tries by getting married and having kids, but sometime in moment of intimacy he does with his wife what he does with Jack, even throught she dislike this action. The scene let the reader know that Ennis still yearns for this type of intimacy even through he is married with kids.

Change

I like the fact that the whole point of the movie is to pay tribute to the American western, but yet also try to make them better. The narrator guy who was talking about them movie said that when the movie first came out it was not accept by western movies fans. This made me think way is that anytime something is new and different it takes years for something to catch on or for someone to die? It’s is like anytime in our world where there is something that can change the world for the better it takes people for ever to understand the new thing. For once in our lives people need to sit back and enjoy that something wait and see if it takes off for the good or the bad. To me this is how new genres of literature, art, music, dance, and etc are born through people trying something new or trying to make something better.

The Music

When I think of a western movie I don't remember the gun scene, but instead i mostly remember the sounds of the iconic music playing in the background. It was funny to me after watching the BBC bio on Once Upon a Time in the West that music and western where not put together until this movie. In my generations where music goes hand in hand with movies I can't imagen a world where music didn't help set the scene of the movie. I found out through the bio that two pieces of music that I recognize as western music was composed by Ennio Morricone just for the movie. The most amazing part is that the music was composed first. I also like that the music was set on the scenes as the scene was being shot so that the the actors and actress could walk to the sound of the music, the same way most of music videos are done today.

Essay Topic

I really don’t know what I want to talk about. My two top choice are in red.

- Women and there rolls in the movie VS. women and their rolls in that time period and ours.

- Stereotypes in the movies VS. Stereotypes in today world.

- The manual for being a good Indian is not far from reality T.V. casting

- Something from the last poem we read.

- The Code of Ethics and how they have evolved.

WoW

As I read "Dear John Wayne" it just seem like another poem. The I got to the line that said,

The eye sees a lot, John, but the heart is so blind.
Death makes us owners of nothing.

To me this line was so powerful it made me go "wow". This line to me meant that your eye can see so far, but your heart is not open to see and understand how the Indians live their lives. Your eyes and heart are to busy trying to gain land and material things that you forget that one day we will all die and these things know longer will belong to us.

Playing Indian is just like Playing REAL WORLD.

The rules for playing Cowboys and India are stupid. The rules are set up so that the Indians never have a chance to win in a battle or live. It seems as if almost every Indian and Cowboy movie I have ever seen has had some of the same crazy rules and effects. It is almost like Hollywood took these rules for real. Hollywood probably treated these rules as if they were a manual on how to become a successful actor. The funny thing is that in today’s time we have some of the same stereotypes and rule to have a successful movie or T.V. show. For example everyone knows that on Real World there will always be The Good Girl, The Drunk, The Gay Person, The Token Black person, The Jesus Lover, & the Ladies Man.

I really have know CLUE

At first I knew nothing of John Wayne, but I knew I had heard his name before. So, I google his name in google image search and his picture popped up and I remember that he is the guy my dad watch in his western movies. Basicly, I know from watching movies with my daddy that John gets shot and gets back up after he has been shot.

The Mask

In the Lone Ranger the indian is dress like the typical stereotypes of an indian the only thing he is missing is the head gear. The Lone Ranger that lives turns himself into a mask hero. To me this is amazing because most of our modern day hero like batman, and superman are mask heros who want to hind their identity for the better good of man kind. It is also interesting that he is not out to kill but to wound them and he wants the courts to handle the bad mans punishments.

gracefully, Peacefully, Willingly, Bravely

Gracefully gables at the hands of his master.
Peacefully laying down at the command of his master voice.
Willingly helps his master rounded the Indians' Mustang.
Bravely stand by his master in the mist of danger.
Willing to die to save his master life from the Indians.
Peacefully lay dead at the bottom of the cliff

Lurks

Lurks in the forest

Hiding like and Indian

Moves fast as if a ghost

Conductors call him Phantom

A Phantom he is

Guiding the immigrants back to camp

With Out being seen or heard

Oh no, he is not a Phantom

He is California Joe

An average Joe one might say.

Understanding the misunderstood

Why is it that when humans see a class lower than them or different than them they feel the need to look down on them? We all do it at sometime or some point in ours lives just out of being human. But, this human reaction becomes dangerous when it gets to the point where instead of talking down on them we try to change them for the “better of man kind”. This change is okay if they are willing, but when done by force, it is awful. It leads to wars, prejudice and stereotypes.

In Frank L Baum editorials all these issues are present. Baum writes that the Medicine Man was “an Indian with a white man’s spirits of hatred and revenge for those who has wronged him”. Hatred and revenges has nothing to do with color they are apart of being human. Every heart holds some type of hatred and revenges, but it is just awful with the human minds retaliate back to those who they hate that is what make hatred and revenges wrong. The Pioneers set the level of intolerance for the Indians when they said, “that our only safety depends upon total exterminations [sic] of the Indians.” I was like “what the world” when I read that. Maybe they would have not posed a threat if the Pioneers hadn’t came in on there land acting as if they already owned the land. Baum also wrote that “we cannot honestly regret there extermination”. As humans when have something in us that make us feel bad when he have wrong people or killed people, this is the reason why solider are psych evaluation when they come back from war, because when as humans naturally feel bad for killings someone, unless there is something wrong with us.

"US" is a powerful word

Charlot is really telling these people off in his letter. Charlot admitted that they “were happy when they first came”. Charlot’s people treated the Europeans with the up most respected by teaching them to hunt, harvest the land and they even feed them when they where hungry. As generation past in American the European people forgot their debits to the Indian people. The European began to treat the Indians as in they were only a piece of property that came with the land. They forced the same people who treated them with respect on to reservations.

“He spoiled what the spirits who gave us this country made beautiful and clean”.

To me this sentence is so power because even through Charlot is upset that the Europeans are trying to make the Native America pay tax after they took the land from them he doesn’t become so selfish that he says “my land or my peoples land”. Charlot used the word “us” meaning that this land is to be shared among them as humans. By him saying "us" he not say that the Europeans should give them every thing back that they took he just wants them to be willing to share what the Spirits have given them. To me this one word shows that Charlot is a classy Native American and should be treated as if he was a European man. Charlot's action are better than some of the European men who where being two faced to the Native Americans.

What the World

When first reading the handout I wasn't to interested in reading the handout. As I read I became upset with the American settlers for doing the Poncas people so wrong. The Poncas people had faith in the "white man" but the American settlers continue to do them wrong. The Poncas people left their way of life and lived under Americans treaty. The American people didn't hold up to the treaty, so they revised the treaty. When the treaty was revised it was supposed to make life better for the Poncas people, but it began to get worse. The Poncas people was appointed a "white man" to be incharge getting the lodging to live in, stores, and educational build, but he blow the 20,000. The Poncas people continue to hold on to the belief that the treaty was to help them even through their food supply was running low and their people were straving. After years of the Poncas people being true to themselves and remaining peaceful with the Americans they decided to void the treaty and go back to there way of life.

The part of the story that got to me was when a small family was hunting awary from the seetlement and they where shot my americans soliders. This part deeply upset me because here are these people who are so peaceful and want to believe and trust in the great "white man"but the "white man" only thought of them as if their where a set of wild dogs eating at the crops. An the Americans soldiers shot them in cold blood just as if their where wild dogs.