Engl powerpoint 2
- 1. INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN THE AMERICAN IMAGINATION: REPRESENTATIONS OF NATIVE PEOPLES “The Sovereignty and Goodness of God” by Mary Rowlandson And “Weedflower” by Cynthia Kadohata Created by Kennedi Williams on April 9,2018
- 2. HIGHLIGHTS • Racism/oppression • Stability • Model Minority • Migration Both Rowlandson and Kadohata show these key points in their works. • Rowlandson gives representations on Indigenous peoples. • Kadohata represents the Japanese people.
- 3. RACISM/OPPRESSION • Racism: prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one’s own race is superior. • Oppression: prolonged cruel or unjust treatment or control; the state of being subject to unjust treatment or control. -stuck in a prisoner state; you can’t get out; cast in society; system- feeds into itself. -loss of dignity; difficult to feel self pride; lonely.
- 4. INDIGENOUS/JAPANESE OPPRESSION • Indigenous peoples face oppression from infrastructure; never ended. • Japanese peoples face oppression by living on reservations; ended after the war.
- 5. COMPARE/CONTRAST OPPRESSIONS • Both were: o Displaced o Surviving on what the have o Limited education o Limited future opportunities • Differences o Japanese came to country to just escape oppression while Indigenous are oppressed on their own land. o Japanese internment exploded families (lost respect for elders after displacement). Indigenous peoples forced to stay together when moved. o Japanese know farm hacks but Indigenous not given the same infrastructure.
- 6. STABILITY • Rowlandson numbered and described each removal to emphasize how much she was moved. -gives the idea that Indigenous peoples aren’t stable. -emphasizing pain and suffering. • Kadohata mentions being removed from their homes and schools and places in camps to later be moved again to reservations. -stability was limited due to uncertainty of the next move.
- 7. MODEL MINORITY • Definition: immigrant group that people perceived as good. • Rowlandson: portrays Indigenous peoples as savages, all while humanizing some. • Kadohata: the Japanese were humanized and lived their own lives. Later suffered embarrassment from displacement - loss of model minority status and now considered savages for involvement in the war. (involvement bases in race, not actual support for the war)
- 8. MIGRATION (JAPANESE) • Moved to the United States because Empire of Japan as under an emperor. During World War II they sided against the United States. • The lifestyle in Japan at the time migration to the United States started was of an oppressive sort.
- 9. MIGRATION (INDIGENOUS) • Were moved because of the arrival of the Europeans. • Lives lost during migrations because of diseases. • They were constantly moving as colonization spread and there was a lack of stability of their living conditions.
- 10. CONCLUSION • Both Rowlandson and Kadohata gave different representations of the indigenous and Japanese peoples. • Rowlandson perceived Indigenous peoples as savages with lack of stability; her perspective was more racist with respect to certain individuals. • Kadohata gave a fresh perspective on the Japanese drawing attention to oppression, stability, and migration.