The value of the film, “The Only Good Indian” to a U.S. History class is to show how much power of a white man can hold, especially from the early 1900s. But in reality, in the society we have right now seems like it has not changed dramatically yet. To have a person or child be taken away from their family and go to a school where they learn how to be “white” is un-American. But in the early 1900s that was all normal to them which I can understand. This also shows how time can be a advantage that things like this do not happen anymore well at least that we don't know of. I say this because; some people cannot seem to let go of the past for example like sexism and especially racism. To think that you are better than one another just because of skin …show more content…
History class can really benefit the way we see things in our society today. With the society we have today, we can learn a lot from the film “The Only Good Indian” such as like standing up for yourself even when you are powerless. For example, when Charlie was asked to say an English word he took pride in himself to stand up and speak his native language right in front of the teacher. And when Sam Franklin the bounty hunter comes across Charlie when he runs away, he is determined to bring him in for the reward of an escaped student from the Indian Boarding School. At that time, Sam Franklin was all about being a “white man” since he was an Indian scout for the U.S. Army. But over time Sam Franklin realizes that he shouldn't be just like everyone else just because being a white person is more dominant than the other races. He took it upon himself to break the law because he sees what he is doing to his own kind/ race. So when he stands up for Charlie it really showed who he really was all along. Being someone you are not is just wrong; simply because you are scared doesn't mean you shouldn't be who you really are. For Sam and Charlie they have to stand up to the antagonist or Sheriff Henry
The film observes and analyzes the origins and consequences of more than one-hundred years of bigotry upon the ex-slaved society in the U.S. Even though so many years have passed since the end of slavery, emancipation, reconstruction and the civil rights movement, some of the choice terms prejudiced still engraved in the U.S society. When I see such images on the movie screen, it is still hard, even f...
This shows us that we are not born with prejudice and stereotypes, it is taught to us. When you think about how it is taught to us you may think it might be the parents, but it could also be the teachers. It is our duty to teach our students that we need to respect everyone, and no matter what skin color they are, we are all the same. This would actually be a great film to show high schoolers and have a discussion on. However, as an elementary school teacher I believe that this film would be very inappropriate to show children, but if we wanted to talk about stereotypes and prejudice maybe we could find some books that talk about it discretely. Like I said, we are not born with prejudice and stereotypes, they are learned. We can also teach our students that we do not need to think this way about others. Overall, this was an excellent film with a lot of teachable
The Birth of a Nation (1915) is one of the most controversial movies ever made in Hollywood, some people even consider it the most controversial movie in the long history of Hollywood. Birth of a Nation focuses on the Stoneman family and their friendship with the Cameron’s which is put into question due to the Civil War, and both families being on different sides. The whole dysfunction between the families is carried out through important political events such as: Lincoln’s assassination, and the birth of the Ku Klux Kan. D.W. Griffith is the director of the movie, and him being born into a confederate family in the South, the movie portrays the South as noble and righteous men, who are fighting against the evil Yankees from the North, who have black union soldiers among them, whom overtake the town of Piedmont, which leads the KKK to take action and according to the movie become the savior of white supremacy. During this essay, I would focus on the themes of racial inequality, racism, and the archetypical portrayal of black people in the movie, which are significant especially during the era when the film was released.
The depiction of minorities, specifically women and Native Americans, in Western film has changed drastically from the early 1930's to the late 1980's. These changes represent the changing views of American society in general throughout the 20th century. In the early part of the century, women and Native Americans were depicted as a burden. Women were viewed as a form of property, helpless and needing support. These minorities were obstacles in the quest for manifest destiny by the United States. Western films during the early 20th century represent the ignorance of American culture towards minorities. As time progressed, society began to develop compassion for Native Americans and men began to see women as equals. The movie industry perpetuated the views of society throughout the last century. When Native Americans were seen as an "obstacle" in westward expansion, film directors supported these views on screen. As society began to question the treatment of Native Americans and women, the film scripts responded to these changes. By looking at western films over the last 60 years, the correlation between societal attitudes and film plots has changed the views of Native Americans and women. The two have worked together to bring the portrayal of Native Americans from savage beasts to victims, and women from property to equals.
But the film actually made me recall a question that I always had: to what extent can we, as somewhere who are not involved in the events, criticize people, especially the wrongdoers, who did partake in the history? As people from the 21st century, we know that slavery is unjust and horrible because we were raised in a society where love and peace were honored. When I questioned myself what would I do if I were Edwin Epps, Marry Epps, or William Ford, I began to question myself how much can I criticize them people when the cruelty was norm, and all those people did really was to follow the norm. Although it would be righteous and courageous to stand up for the blacks, not everyone is all courageous and willing to challenge the society. The film reminded me to have my own judgment and not to blindly follow what everyone else consider to be the norm. This film also made me wonder: when it is many years from now, how much of the social norm today would be considered to be cruel and
King’s essay and video enlightened me on Indian stereotyping, a stereotyping that I did not know existed, even though I have been subjected to it my entire life. I have been subjected to this stereotype because of people like Curtis and May, who created the stereotype of Indians through pictures and writings. These stereotypes continued on throughout the years and can be seen in cartoons, movies, and pictures; but because of King’s essay and video I now have an understanding of the Indian stereotype. Since I now have an understanding of this stereotype I can educate people by showing them King’s video, so they as well can understand the
In the late eighteenth century, the United States government wanted to acculturate and assimilate Native American people as opposed to instituting reservations. The officials endorsed the practice of education for Indian children in the customs of white people. To help in bringing this to life, the Civilization Fund Act of 1819 provided financing to mostly religious societies who worked on educating Indians, often at schools. Schools were founded by missionaries next to Indian settlements, which later became reservations. As time went on, schools were built with boarding facilities, to provide accommodations for students who lived too far to be there on a daily basis (Lajimodiere 8). The Civilization Fund Act was immoral and had tremendous negative impact because it assisted in funding the Indian boarding schools, which resulted in abuse of Native children, supported the loss of their own culture and language, and lead to forced separation from families and tribes.
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What do the works, “As Canadian as Possible under the Circumstances” and “I’m not the Indian you had in mind” have in common? The dissection of these writing pieces revealed that they do in fact have multiple similarities. Those ideas are the use of identity, stereotypes as well as double meanings.
The Disney movies of Pocahontas tell a plot of a Native ¬American tribe and English colonists that fight for the land the Native Americans live on though war ultimately creating moderate peace. While keeping to their own sect, the imbalance of power between the two social groups is prevalent throughout much of the story. Walt Disney’s Pocahontas is more than a classic children’s movie. It is a thoughtful, well contrived narration that portrays a message that in order to fit in, you must be a certain race and born into a specific culture. Disney’s Pocahontas suggesting that the color of our skin shouldn’t matter when being accepted into social groups as well as the idea that arranged marriage should be rejected. Thus, treating people right could ultimately have a positive outcome and lastly, the film also suggests that family roles change without a mother figure.
It is no surprise that American Indian tribes are mentioned in our Constitution. Indian tribes have always played a major part in the non-Indian exploration, settlement, and development of this country. When Christopher Columbus thought he had discovered the “New World” in 1492, it is estimated that 10-30 million native people lived in North America, that is, in the present day countries of Mexico, United States and Canada. These millions of people lived under governments of varying sophistication and complexity. These native governments were viable and fully operational political bodies which controlled their citizens and their territories and were an important factor in the development of the United States government we live under today.
If there is such a cuisine that is distinctly Asian, curry that is. Curry is to South Asia as fish and chips is to Great Britain. One of those Asian cuisines that has transcend boundaries, various curries have found their way into Southeastern and Far Eastern gastronomy, Great Britain curry houses and Caribbean kitchens. Indeed, curry is as colorful and diversified as the different cultures of Asia.
Moving to the values, attitudes, beliefs and behaviours, Punjabis are a heterogeneous group comprising of different tribes, clans, communities and are known to celebrate each and every tradition of their culture. People of Punjab have strong beliefs on pir-faqeers, jogi, taweez, manat-ka-dhaga, saint of repute, black magic, and other superstitions, however recently due to increase of literacy, people have become somewhat rational . Punjabis also believe in cast system but as now people are getting educated, the differences are getting blurred. (reference)
Bollywood movies are such a kind of excitement, to the point that enthralls individuals of India and also as far and wide as possible for quite a long time. It has provides for us most valuable, essential bits of specialty ever those we can look the same number of time as we need. Possibly the best effect of Bollywood has been on patriotism in India itself, where nearby rest of Indian film, it has been able to be part and heap of the 'Indian story'. In the statements of the economist and Bollywood biographer Lord Meghnad Desai. Music is the other most critical piece of Indian movies. Bollywood movies as been spark in numerous viewpoints like courage, story astute. Bollywood motion pictures are
1. The importance of the study of world history to me personally as an American is very significant because I hope to find a career where I will work with many diverse people and I not only want to know them, but I want to have an understanding of where they came from in order to associate with them better. Another reason is that an American can be from any culture from around the world. Americans aren’t any certain race or religion, so we have to understand our fellow citizens just as they need to understand us. I was in definite need of a course like this because before I started taking this class I had no idea of the simple concept of the different beliefs between Hinduism and Judaism. I had heard of the different religions vaguely in high school, but was never actually taught about them. I didn’t even know that Jews did not eat pig because they thought it was a descendant of the devil. If I weren’t to know that, somewhere down the road I might have offered one of my Jewish friends a ham sandwich and that would have been a very embarrassing situation.