influential film. The film is considered by many critics to be a true American masterpiece because of its ability to capture the beauty and impending danger of the frontier. This movie tells of an emotional journey of a man‚ Ethan Edwards‚ who avenges the Comanche Indian chief responsible for the deaths of his family and the kidnapping of his two nieces. The most important theme found in the film is the hatred toward interracial mixture. The director reveals this theme through several characters‚ especially
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can be very roughly said to have the pleasure of hearing boy-hood stories involving Chinese bandits and emerald vaults. The story is made up of 3 major characters. First of them‚Narrator’s name is not known‚ He belongs to a organization called Comanches. He is nine years old when the story is told.There is another key character ‚besides the narrator‚ ’’the Chief was John Gedsudski‚ of Staten Island. He was an extremely shy‚ gentle young man of twenty-two or -three‚ a law student at N.Y.U.‚ and
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The Battle of Little Big Horn: The Prelude to Disaster It is hard to say how many years ago the Dakota Indians of the Northern Mississippi River began to spill over the Missouri in search of game‚ and became hostile toward the other tribes claiming the western country. Dakota was their traditional tribal name‚ but as they crossed this Northwestern Rubicon they became known by the name the Chippewas had given them years ago: "Sioux". It was by that moniker they became known as the most numerous
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World War II / Navajo Code Talkers The Navajo of the Southwestern U.S. are the largest Indian Reservation and most recognized tribe in all of the United States of America. It was based on the Navajo Language‚ one of the hardest languages to learn. Children who lived on the Reservation were not allowed to speak their own language at school but even that didn’t stop them; they always used it at home or any other place but if children were caught speaking any other language besides English‚ they
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The Searchers The scene in The Searchers being analyzed is the event that creates the plot of the entire film. Ethan returns from a ploy by the Comanche to get the men away the homestead‚ while the Comanche burn the homestead‚ kill the remaining men and women and abduct the girls Debbie and Lucy. In The Searchers this passage plays an important role in the development of the film‚ it provides psychological characterization of the main characters through cinematography‚ the editing style of the
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most of the tribes had were destroyed or beaten into submission. Life of the Plains Indians 2/3 Natives lived on Great Plains. After they acquired the Spanish horse they took up a unique culture based upon nomadic hunting of the buffalo( gave food‚ clothing‚ shelter‚ used everything). Though the Plains Indians generally existed in tribes of thousands people‚ they lived in smaller bands of several hundred. These bands acted independently‚ making it hard for the U.S. govt. Comanche dominated the
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the end of the Red River Campaign‚ violent raids from Comanche Indians and outlaw bandits were still a common occurrence. Not all of the Indians had been killed or captured‚ and it was still not uncommon for them to sneak off the reservation and conduct raids. A majority of the raids on the northwestern frontier were believed to be conducted by Comanche and Kiowa from the Fort Sill reservation in the Indian Territory‚ but non-reservation Comanche were also suspected‚ and they inhabited the Llano Estacado
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United States soldiers and even their homes were being raided leaving behind cattle‚ land‚ and their personal belongings . Threw out the whole journey there were many obstacles that not only the Navajo underwent but also the Spanish‚ Mexican‚ Apache‚ Comanche‚ Ute‚ and after 1846 the Anglo Americans had gone through the long walks also. "The tension in 1859 and 1860‚ and
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accustom to this new surrounding they had to learn how to farm. They survived with a small portion of crops‚ such as‚ watermelon‚ beans‚ as well as corn. The Apache Indians just like the Japanese culture were in many wars‚ one of their first was with Comanche tribe of which they lost. After this war‚ the Apache were forced to move to other areas‚ like Arizona and New Mexico. Later on around 1730‚ a devastating war between the Spaniards and the Apache occurred. This was not the last war that the Apache would
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you passed away‚ the land stays in the family to keep the family honor and pride alive. In European society‚ what one owned decided one’s identity‚ political standpoint‚ wealth‚ and even independence. The Indians believed that property was part of a tribe‚ not a personal possession to own. One of their beliefs was that the land was sacred‚ and each family should have a piece of the whole. As a general rule‚ the Indians followed their belief that states that everything on the earth is given to all‚ and
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