Lakota Woman - Book Review

Book Review – Lakota muliebrity
By Mary line-shooting Dog

Since the American government passed laws to push for progress and to help ‘ groom’ the primordial American peoples, Indians have suffered as they can no longer practice their cultural customs or let loose their native languages and yet are considered to be less than world in the eyes of the White Americans. In the book “Lakota Woman” by Mary exuberate Dog these White American ethnocentric views are highlighted from experiences in Crow Dog’s life and are compared to the degree of ethnocentrism displayed by the Indians to keep their destination in defiance of the White Americans plans for them.

Growing up on an Indian reservation Mary Crow Dog see the ethnocentrism displayed by White Americans at a time when it was politically encouraged during the 1950’s through to the 1970’s. From Crow Dog’s account this ethnocentrism was evident on two main levels.



The setoff being the explicit ethnocentric remarks and policies directed at the Native American people by the nation and state governments, and the countenance being the policies that were put in place that are seen by government to be just and of great benefit to the Indians, such(prenominal) as the Reorganisation Act, but in fact were real endangering the Indian culture and people (p. 112). The main ethnocentric ideas displayed by the White American’s was the fact that they strongly believed that they call for to acculturate these ‘illiterate natives’ as their beliefs and way of life was seen as abnormal and needed to be corrected, (Bodley, 1999, p. 21).

As Mary Crow Dog grew up on Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota, she had learned tradition Indian values and had taken part in Indian ceremonies despite being influenced by her Christian mother and spending many years in a Catholic boarding school, she essentialed to embrace her Indian identity. During her early teens she was forced to go to boarding school not...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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