Smoke Signals.

The movie Smoke Signals is centered around Thomas and Victor. These two boys are linked because Victor's father saved Thomas when he was a baby during a fire that claimed his parents. The movie gives us flashbacks to the past and present and so far is pretty interesting and nicely told. My only pet peeve thus far is Thomas' character in the movie. He is very annoying. Personally I can relate to Victor a lot. We've both lived pretty hard lives, we're cool under pressure, and just take the world as it comes.

In response to Wendy Rose's poems.

In the poem Itch Like Crazy: Resistance, Wendy is describing what I think is white man's need for land. "When I see Columbus in the eyes of nearly everyone" is a really powerful line in the entire poem. It kind of sets up the poem up for being one that shows Wendy's distaste for non-Native and how they took from her what was hers.

Truganinny

For some reason Truganinny was a rather hard read for myself. The content didn't go over my head, but the way the content was displayed made me become uninterested thought out the whole passage. From what I made of the story it appears a women is about to die after a long life and is using her memory as paint and make us a nice canvas with them. :]

In response to Crimes Against Humanity.

This article deals with a Native Americans distaste for Native American names used as team names and mascots and how it is doing a dishonor to present and past Native Americans. Personally, like the article says I think it's not so much as a dishonor, but a way to honor the race that was almost brought to extinction many years ago. I think the names are fine and should not be something to get so upset over.

Note to a Culture Vultre and How to Write the Great American Indian Novel

These two novels greatly contrast each other. The first one, "Note to a Culture Vulture" refers to an Indian that is showing their disgust for being the "white man's burden." It is really sad and almost made me shed a tear. The other essay is one that is quite racist towards Indians and gives a rubric for what an Indian novel has to include in order for it to be legit towards the white man.

Brokeback Mountain

Brokeback Mountain is an interesting article about two cowboys living in the West and there travels across the wilderness. This article was kind of a hard read for me for a reason I can't place and there was a ton of cussing throughout it.