ENGL 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Indigenous Rights
16 Oct 2016
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Most europeans have never seen an indigenous person, and have little access to. She provided them with a safe environment for contact and therefore more efficiently educate them. Fallen nation, but still fighting and surviving. For a white audience, people tend to stick to an idea of authentic indigenous culture that is frozen in time. Ex. it"s less likely for people to think of modern indigenous people in urban dress than in their traditional dress, when really, indigenous culture has evolved since then. The cattle thief : situation: native people who are starving because of settlement and the lack of food resulting from it. Food was kept from the indigenous people to force them to convert to christianity. Common practice: structure: 3 stanzas, ten lines each. People desperate to keep their land safe (europeans) Directly engaging the audience (in performance: image of the eagle chief as monstrous .
