ENGLISH 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Canoe.Com, Strum, Skedans

• School: McMaster University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGLISH 1AA3
• Professor: Roger Hyman

Document Summary

We came to toxis stuffed with black pg. The mission is they believe they are saving the indians (from eternal damnation) by introducing them to christianity, a very important aspect of white-indian relations. The mission house (toxis) is holy, but she says it"s stuffed with black, which goes against what it is. The colour black also shows it is very desolate. Language emphasizes the unapproachable otherness of towering woods pg. I felt so young and empty she feels young because she"s in the middle of a conflict that has been going on for centuries. The feeling of emptiness could be mirroring the idea that whites are trying to eradicate natives" culture. The text is about either new culture or old culture of spirituality. When the missionary put a, b, c . threw it back pg. Schools are a way of young people being imprinted so that they see the world in the same way the older generation saw the world.