The Kiowa tribe was one of the most feared tribes in the Great Plains. If the buffalo herds started to come another tribe’s way‚ they’d better watch their backs or immediately make peace. The Kiowa tribe was a great tribe with a unique way of life and a terrifying
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Jonathan Moeller Final Paper‚ Theory and History of Cinema 5-‐4-‐12 1 Gender Roles in the Work of John Ford: How The Director of Westerns Used Women To Drive a Male Dominated Genre The Western genre has always been a representation of American identity‚ in that its films reflect societal moods
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and during the 1930’s and WWII‚ there was a huge movement set in motion by the U.S government to destroy every cultural and religious aspect of Native Americans. During those years‚ as many Indian boarding schools separated young children from their tribes and tried erasing their cultural roots‚ some changes were being set in motion. For the first time‚ some people started speaking out about this destruction of culture and new advocates started to try and set policies in place to try and protect Indian
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Oklahoma Land Rush Oklahoma Indian Territory 5 civilized tribes –Cherokees‚ Chickasaw‚ Choctaws‚ Creek‚ Seminole Land Rush on “No Man’s Land” – April 22‚ 1889 – white settlers given opportunity to settle far western portion of OK Curtis Act 1889 – formally ended Indian communal land ownership thereby legally dissolving Indian Territory Oklahoma – “land of the Red Man” At the close of the Civil War 360‚000 Indians still lived in Trans-Miss. West. Most in Great Plains. Plain Indians used guns
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expeditions and photos came after the Civil War * Land Ordinance of 1785 told how Federal Government sold lands * Federal Government sold lands cheap and gave land away to Veterans of 1812 EXPANSION AND INDIAN POLICY * Eastern Indian tribes were being removed from their homelands to Indian Territory * Jefferson claimed this would allow Natives to live quietly and learn “civilized” ways * Government officials who negotiated the removals failed to predict the tremendous speed which
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Different groups of Indians responded differently to oppose their life style changes. For instance‚ Comanche and Kiowa raiding parties used the reservation during the winter to store seasonal supplies and resuming their nomadic ways during spring time. Other tribes‚ such as Crow‚ Arikara‚ Pawnee‚ and Shoshoni fought along side the U.S army to defeat their old enemy‚ the Sioux. This strategy helped them avoid the fate of being shipped
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Debbie but would rather to kill her for “living with a buck” as he put it‚ referring to the Indian warrior-chief called Scar. Ethan’s hatred isn’t only confined to the Comanche’s (Indian tribe)‚ going on to say that “the only good Indian being a dead Indian”. Ethan shoots the eyes out of an already dead Comanche in his grave‚ claiming if it has no eyes‚ then it can’t enter the spiritual land. Halfway through The Searchers‚ Ethan Edwards is lead to three white females who have been released from Indian
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Flying Across the Night Sky‚” appears in a brief flashback sequence delivered from Marty’s point of view in a letter to Laurie. The scene portrays Marty’s quest with Ethan to find the Comanche Chief Scar who had kidnapped his adoptive sister Debbie years earlier. While attempting to purchase a blanket from a Comanche tribe with connections to Scar‚ Marty
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In Michael Omi and Howard Wintant’s Racialization‚ it has depicted the theory of racial formation in the different perspective from different races. For example‚ the authors argued with rejecting the biologistic notions of race in favor of an approach‚ which regards race as a social concept. Within the contemporary social science‚ the authors believe that race is a variable that shape a larger societal factors. In the film‚ the searchers‚ it addressed the race relation in the western American. The
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understanding of race‚ culture‚ customs‚ and religious beliefs of societies. It is well know through out history that the Indians posed a problem for white settlers. Many Indian tribes were for the most part friendly and willing to share the land and its produce with everyone. Some tribes were warrior tribes and fought other warring tribes. White men began to see them as a problem especially when natural resources such as gold or land holdings on Tribal lands or they saw a need for population control for
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