Toni Morrison’s use of language & the language used to suppress to Native Americans

Toni Morrison use many type of languages in her speech. She is exclusively special in language use, and good at employing different points of view in her fictions to show her purpose and produce the tension of beauty. Therefore in Toni Morrison’s Nobel Prize speech she mentioned to two kinds of languages oppressive, racist and official languages .Sherman Alexie Spokane Indian whom born in the reservation has lived endurance life as Native American. Toni Morrison’s use of language & the language used to suppress to Native Americans To begin Toni Morrison uses oppressive language, “Oppressive language does more than represent violence..." oppressive which means very cruel or unfair This verse is very powerful in that the author explains how our language affects our whole lifestyle.i think the author thoroughly explains how language that we use is correlated to the pains and gains of human life. For instance, According to the United States Department of Justice Native Americans experience per capita more than twice the rates of violence as the average American citizen. American Indians are the victim of violence by those of other races, there has always been a great deal of conflict and controversy about Indian Reservations and how they came about. The truth is that the Native Americans were here first and Indian Reservations were set up to give them a piece of land, many of the Native Americans became bitter as they were forced off their lands and told to become farmers. Many of the early Indian Reservations were resistant to farming and some of the Native Americans faced starvation. In addition Native American women experience the highest rate of violence of any group in the United Native American women also stand a high risk of losing their children in instances of physical and sexual abuse, According to the US Department of Justice, by its own admission, crimes against Native Americans go unpunished, which explained the violence experience that Native Americans have lived.
Also Toni uses the racist language which is clearly the same language that US used to treat the Native Americans. Discrimination against Native Americans is the longest held racism in the United States. American Indian has experienced a great deal of racism in the U.S. Although many people overlook or excuse the behavior of the settlers, this was the home of the Indian person before Christopher Columbus. Once their territories were incorporated into the United States, many surviving Native Americans were relegated to reservations— constituting just 4 percent of U.S. territory— and the treaties signed with them were violated. Tens of thousands were forced to attend a residential school system, where they faced widespread discrimination and were often victims of really motivated harassment and violence.