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.