Avatar Westward Expansion

For this assignment, the movie I decided to watch was called ‘Avatar’. This movie is about humans, or “sky people”, travelling to the planet Pandora to conduct studies over the natives that live on the planet, and to gain resources that the planet provides. The natives on Pandora are called the Na’vi, and they are blue creatures who are much different than humans. One of the humans that travelled to Pandora to study the Na’vi is named Jake Sully. Jake is a paralyzed ex-marine who decided to travel to the planet after his twin brother passed away. He came to be in the program where he takes the body of an avatar, so that he can learn more about the people on the planet. The air on Pandora is poisonous to the sky people, so they have to use the
In this movie, the sky people are invading Pandora, and trying to get precious resources that are only on this planet and nowhere else. The mineral that they are searching for is called Unobtanium, and it’s very valuable to the humans and Na’vi people. They humans search all through Pandora for the Unobtanium, and found lots of it under the Na’vi’s hometree. The hometree is where the tribe lives and thrives. This causes the humans to have to go destroy the natives home in order to get the mineral. This relates very well to Americans travelling out to California to search for gold. During the gold rush of 1949, many Americans travelled out to California to find gold. Along the way, they had to go through Indians and even go on their land to retrieve the gold. They kicked many people out of their homes to get the gold. Both of these events also have a lot to do with the greed of the people wanting the
When many of the people in the United States decided to move from the Eastern part of the county to the west, they were promised lots of land. What they didn’t realize, was this land was not theirs to take. This land belonged to Native American Indians that had reservations and had been here for hundreds of years. When they moved out west, they tried to take over land that already belonged to the Indians. They ended up moving many Indian tribes to Oklahoma and Kansas, out of their home land from all over the country. Something very similar to this happened to the Na’vi people on Pandora. When humans came to explore Pandora and retrieve its resources, they didn’t think much of the people that live there. They knew that the Na’vi people lived on Pandora, but they thought that they could just take any of the land that they pleased. The humans started attacking the native people and trying to take over their land and resources as their own. In doing this, they hurt and lost the trust of the Na’vi people. They invaded their land, and tried to take it as their own, as Americans during Westward