The Lakota Sioux Tribe

The area in where it was written is not clearly identified, but the story includes Mississippi to the Great Plains. A brief overview of this section of Nabokov’s book, is that the tribal elder had spoke his mind towards what has been given to him and what has been taken away. In the sense of what is provided for his tribe, were countless amounts of food sources. As the White men came to the area, many things were lost as Buffalos reduced in numbers and so did warriors of the tribe. The idea of the Native children growing up to carry on their own traditions would probably not have happened.

He believed that the Indians did not belong, and were just floating around. Some at the time were saying “America is their country”, (Page 125) he would refute it by saying Native Americans do not even have the same privileges as foreigners.

White Americans loathed the Indians because they were “undeserving” of the fertile land they had. White settlers wanted this land so bad they burned down house and towns, stole animals and lived in land that didn’t belong to them. They tormented the native Americans for decades and then the state governments started passing laws to strip the Indians of their rights. In two separate cases, (Cherokee

The Native Americans many times did not understand what the soldiers were doing, from this the Sioux became scared and fled. Furthermore, Reno’s battalion had coverage from the landscape which cause mass confusion, among both groups. From the eyes of George Henderson, the Native Americans truly never faltered; however, as it was mentioned they could not truly see the battalion. The one statement made from both sides was the Native Americans fled. Though no party considered the other weak, they both felt fear, both the battalion and the Native Americans became confused during this battle.

Indians have been living in misery for centuries now, in reservations drowned in problems like alcoholism, drugs, and illiteracy. The white government has made inumerous attempts to try to assimilate them into the US mainstream population. The effects felt by the Indian reservations due to the negative consequences of white actions are unimaginably devastating. Native Americans have to rely on the government in order to survive, and sometimes that 's still not enough. Their lives have been shaped by the government so much that the effects of the past actions made by the whites have become substantially irreversible, forcing the Native American population to suffer and make sacrificing choices in order to live in the present world.

There is no question that people in the town have Indians portrayed as extremely superstitious, drunks, and lazy individuals, however; this just not true. Indeed, one character Wesley Hayden has an opinion on Native Americans, “Nevertheless, he believed Indians, with only a few exceptions, were ignorant, lazy, superstitious, and irresponsible”(33). Nevertheless, Marie Little Soldier defines the odds of all those negative qualities said of Native Americans. She demonstrates responsibly of David along with other things around the Hayden 's house. However, Wes is still reluctant to have Marie as a Native American gain justice.

According to their current petition against Snowbowl, the Navajos believe the snow-making is incompatible with the sacred character and ecology of the mountain and infringes on their ability to live as their faith calls them to. (finnerty). The conflict between the 13 Native American tribes and Snowbowl resists a clean resolution because courts seek compromises, by percentages, dollars or acres. But anything less than a full expression of belief is a diminished expression, in the eyes of the faithful. (finnerty) The decision in 2008 Court of Appeals case Navajo Nation v. United States Forest Service made it clear that emotivism and authoritarianism, rather than the need for logic and rational justification, have been behind the Court’s claimed inability to respond when justice and fairness demand consideration of competing goods or principles.

People in the town have Indians portrayed as extremely superstitious, drunks, and lazy individuals, however; this just not true. One character, Wesley Hayden has an opinion on native Americans, “Nevertheless, he believed Indians, with only a few exceptions, were ignorant, lazy, superstitious, and irresponsible”(33). Maire Little Soldier defines the odds of all those negative aspects said of Native Americans. She is responsible of David along with other things around the Haydens’ house and is a hard worker. However, Wes is still reluctant to have Marie as a Native American gain justice.

For example, they made the Navajos violate some of their long-established rules, including one that prohibits them from pretending to die. The Navajos believed that the spirits punish “those who did not follow or respect tribal ceremonies” (41), and John Holiday’s observation reinforces this belief. He points out that a lot of the Navajo actors who died were those who played a role in a death scene, and he writes that that they died “at a young age, because they had done what our people are forbidden to do” (41). The Navajos were surely uncomfortable with breaking these traditions, but they couldn’t really object to it because they needed the

He showed the aspects of “he is dependent upon endless affirmation from others in the form of approval, flattery…the more desperately he clings to the belief that he is his idealized image, the more violent the hatred” (Our Inner Conflicts p. 110~p. 111). Also he showed his tendency of “He must in his own mind feel superior in some way – regardless of any particular drive to excel” (Our Inner Conflicts p. 101). Some of the actual strengths and accomplishments that Sooyang had was not able to achieved. By eliminating his surrounding people that opposes to him, he was written as a cruel king of Chosun dynasty.

Many of the non-Aboriginal soldiers understood and treated Aboriginals as equals during the time they spent together in the battlefield. However, this did not mean receiving full equality. Many Aboriginal soldiers were still severely discriminated against in the army and their treatment got worse after the war ended despite their contributions. Due to their status as a "second class," the lives of Aboriginal veterans negatively changed because of the prejudiced treatment they received.

From the time of first contact to the 1880’s, the relationship between the Natives and settlers was continually changing. During the fur trade, the relationship that developed between the natives and the traders was a one without major issues. But as the fur trade began to decline, the relationship between the Natives and the settlers started to decline as well. A catalyst for this change were the treaties that the Natives signed that sold their portions land to the settlers. These treaties, the Treaty of Traverse de Sioux and Mendota, were supposed to establish the permanent homes of these natives, but this did not happen (Treaty of Mendota, 1851; Treaty of Traverse de Sioux, 1851).

There were very few Native Americans and they were being killed off because they were living on land that supposedly needed to be built on. In Touring Indian Country it describes the fear of Native Americans that many had when traveling west, but was not actually the case because there were very few tribes with a meager population. The Touring Indian Country exemplifies people’s fear of Native Americans and the lengths people took to destroy or stay away from Native Americans. The Native Americans population was dwindling because of the diseases that were spread by the Europeans, and because of the advanced technology of Europeans in which gave them guns instead of bows and arrows. The Indian Removal Act also supports this idea because it removed around 50,000 Native Americans (Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw and others from their home) to Indian Territory (present day Oklahoma).

The Metis people are descendants of First Nation women and European men. Many Metis were rejected by both the European and first nation people, because they were not completely one or the other nationality. This resulted in the Metis seeking acceptance from one and other, which allowed them to feel more connected with each other. Even though Metis are part European they were born in Canada, being born in Canada could give them a feeling of Canadian nationalism. Even though some may feel connected to Canada they might also be loyal to their first nation and European ancestry.