The Native American Experience Through The Eyes of...

Code â€Å"What I’m about to tell you, Corporal, cannot leave this room. Under no circumstances can you allow your code talker to fall into enemy hands. Your mission is to protect the code†¦ at all cost.† In the movie, Windtalkers, this is how a commander wants his marine to treat the paired Navajo code talker. That is, if it’s necessary, his marine could kill the Navajo, just like abandoning one of his properties. Even in the mid 1900s, the Native Americans were still treated not as human beings, but rather, machines; therefore, it is not hard for us to imagine how even more frightening the Native Americans’ circumstances were in the early days when they were first colonized by the western settlers. In Deborah Miranda’s â€Å"Indian†¦show more content†¦It is also this depressing lost of Native Americans’ culture that has motivated them to never stop trying to return home. However, in the memory of the speaker’s dad, these Native Americans were just â€Å"swollen bellies of salmon coming back to a river that wasn’t there† (CR 123). Salmon have the nature of returning back to the place, where they were born in, to reproduce. Comparing the Native Americans to salmon, the author identifies the importance of their land to their nature. That is, losing the land is the same as losing their reproduction. Therefore, taking the land away for the modern developments, the western culture has ultimately become the nightmare for the Native Americans. Similar to Deborah, in â€Å"Itch Like Crazy: Resistance†, Wendy also uses mother-child metaphors to deliver the ultimate relationship between the people and their land that the land gives birth to the Native Americans. When the speaker in the poem refers to the place, namely the â€Å"Turtle†, where the history of colonization has happened to the Native Americans, she identifies this area as â€Å"my mother, the stones, channels of water, / blood of her veins, every place a place where history walked† (CR 125). Comparing the land to the â€Å"mother†, Wendy suggests that the perspective of the Native Americans toward their land is very different than howShow MoreRelatedEssay about Eagle Poem1140 Words   |  5 Pagesthe eagle to an angle. Joy Harjo did a tremendous job in explaining to the reader that one can relax oneself through prayer and nature. We can all relate to the idea of allowing ourselves into places not yet imagined and feeling at peace. She connects the idea of peacefulness with nature and prayer in a well thought language that allows her to still connect herself to her Native American ancestry. 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