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Summary Of Lame Deer Seeker Of Visions

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The perpetuation of the Lakota people reveals the American religious experiences through the stratification of social inequality through the eyes of Lame Deer. Lame Deer provides a personal narrative that landscapes native religion through social injustice inflicted on the Sioux nation. His stories provide a personal interpretation of what it is to be Native American or Indian living in the white man's world. Lame Deer Seeker of Visions, provides the context of religion from the journey of the Medicine Man.
Being Indian embodies myth, ritual, and symbolism of religious tradition as a way of cultural and individual identity. Native American history reveals the loss of that identity. Lame Deer explains in chapter 2 what it felt like seeing his …show more content…

General Mile’s donated Chief Lame Deer’s gun to the Museum. (pg.8) For Lame Deer, it was a symbolic representation of the pillaging oppression for the Sioux inflicted by the white man. He states, “The Gun did not belong to him. It belongs to me. I am the only Lame Deer left.” this passage illustrates the intense emotional suffering he felt. (Pg. 8) The gun personifies his Indian heritage and the freedoms stolen from him and his people. The murder of his great-grandfather by General Miles was a historical massacre of racial segregation plaguing the Lakota people. Another historical massacre was the battle of Wounded Knee both of Lame Deer’s grandfathers Crazy Heart, and Great Fox were apart of the battle. (pg.12) Great Fox shares his PTSD with Lame Deer “every time, I hear a lady or child screaming I think of that terrible day of Killing. (Pg13) The Wounded Knee Massacre happened because of the religious practices of the

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