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.