Results for Stories That Metaphorize The Plight Of Native Americans At The Hands Of Colonialism
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Two natives, the last of the Injuns in a colonized land, discuss their plans to reclaim their land from the whites. However, the male native falls into a fatal accident while practicing his shamanism and the lone woman feels the aftereffects.
A young Native American man talks about his encounter with a white man who was captured by his tribe. The white man and the Native American man grow closer through mutual teaching.
An older man recounts how White settlers violently removed him from his home and took him to a boys ranch to strip him of his indigeneity.
A young Native American man visits a burial site on a nearby island and must reflect on both his allegiance to his culture and to himself.
When an old rival from the Comanche nation appears at his doorstep, a half-white, half-Indigenous ranch owner in Texas reckons with all that was taken away from their Native ancestors by colonizers.
After his uncle goes missing, a young Coeur d'Alene Native American convinces his mom to hold a funeral. He reflects on all the family members he has lost and on their proximity to violence inflicted by the US government that is often viewed as past.
The body of a sixty-three-year-old Mohawk woman's little brother is uncovered at the construction site of a fast food company fifty years after his death, which prompts her to grapple with questions of assimilation and memory.
After a Native American man learns that his father has died in Phoenix, an estranged childhood friend and current social outcast offers him the money he needs to fly there from the reservation to make arrangements and collect his small inheritance. But there's one stipulation: he has to bring the outcast with him.
Margaret and Grandfather Nanapush, two Chippewa elders, are captured and shamed by younger reservation inhabitants for their refusal to sign a controversial treaty. Nanapush and Margaret’s stepdaughter Fleur enact revenge through snares and old magic, respectively.
A Navajo man tells the story of how he fell in love with an American woman and followed her to the northern mountains, consequently meeting her disapproving husband and breaching the boundary between American and Native American culture.