Premonition and Prophecies
Native American had developed some three hundred distinct cultures and spoke over two hundred different languages. North America was well discovered by the time Columbus and his kind set foot on its shores. Actually Columbus not the first European arrive. In fact, some scholars suggest that the first non – Indians came from Asia there are Buddhist texts that tell of five beggar priests who sailed from China in A. D 458. The first contact as the initial encounters between Native American and the white are termed by anthropologist, occurred at different time and places. Generally the more eastern and southern the locale, the earlier was the first contact.
Indian society was the eve of what was to be the most catastrophic confrontation in its history. The Wasco Indians of Oregon have a prophecy story in which a wise old man dreams of strangers with hair on their faces coming from the direction of the rising sun. When he awaken, he gives this advice to his fellow tribesmen: “ You people must be careful”
1. He will use any means to get what he wants
It is known that white man is an intelligent person, an inventor of many words, a man who knows to influence people because of his sweet way of talking and that he will use many of these things upon us when he comes.
2. White Rabbit got lotsa everything
White Rabbits- white people- gonta devour the grass, seed and living.
3. Visitors from heaven
One time, about two hundred years ago, in a place called Fort Hope, Ontario, there was a settlement of Ojibway Indians where there was a medicine man who brought visitors from heaven to a huge wigwam shaped like a beaver house.
4. Thunder’s dream comes true
Thunder was born in the vicinity of Montreal where the great spirit first placed the Sauk Nation, and inspired him with a belief that, at the end of four years, he should see a white man, who would be to him a father. Finally he met the white man and told him that white man was the son of the King of France.
5. Easy life of the gray eyed
The prophecy said that when the native American met the Gray eyes they begin to eat iron stick, the tones will grow louder even to the parents, disobedient. Then they will mix with these gray eyed people and they will learn their ways, break up homes, murder and steal.
6. The spider web
Drinks Water dreamed that the four leggeds were going back into the earth and that the strange race had woven a spider’s web all around the Lakotas and he Said” when this happens, you shall live in square gray houses, in a barren land, and beside those square gray houses you shall starve”. Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.
Face to face
On Friday, October 12, 1942, when Christopher Columbus and his men hauled their armed landing boat up on the island in the Bahamas to which he gave the name San Salvador, the local Taino Indian were awestruck. Two years later he shipped off live hundred West Indian natives as slaves nearly all of them died of disease. Thus began the wholesale enslavement of the Island Indian by Spain, which virtually annihilated the native peoples of the Caribbean.
The explorers, treasure hunters, traders, missionaries, trappers, soldiers, and colonists who followed in the wake of Columbus represented a number of separate cultures. Each brought to the new world their own national characteristics and particular interests.
Stories based on face to face encounters became part of tribal folklore. It is interesting how many of the selections that follow underscore the cultural conflicts that have plagued Indian-white relations down to the present day.
1. Their wondrous works and ways
Born with the Indian name “The Pitiful Last” but later called “The Winner”, Eastman did not see white person until he was sixteen. He then became one of a stream of Indians who since the eighteen century had attended Dartmouth college.
Wacan is the mysterious race whose power bordered upon the supernatural. They had made a “fireboat” that united two element which cannot exist together. They made some of their people servant, slaves. And now the slaves have children born to them of the same color. The white had desire to possess the whole world.
2. Before they got thick
Some of white wanted to kill the black but others wanted to be brothers with them and let them alone. The Lipan gave the black some pumpkin seed and the seed corn and the way to use them. They started a new life. They were getting along very well. After that, they began to get thick.
3. Silmoodawa gives a complete performance.
Silmoodawa shot animal with a bow, bled him, skinned and dressed him, slice up the meat, and spread it out on flakes to dry, he then cooked a portion and ate it.
4. A different kind of man
Lone white Man lived among Native for many years, but never married.
5. I hid myself and watched
Pretty Shield told the people “I Had never seen a white man before. I ran away home and told the people I had seen something out there coming toward the sheep. It looked like a man, I said, but had wool all over its face. I thought the whiskers were wool, and I wasn’t sure it was a man.
B. ANALYSIS
Native American, like human societies everywhere had developed cultures and spoke different languages and bands so small as “tribelets” shows that they can live in different style and can accept the different thought of human being. They keep help hand in hand to keep their generation. It also as a sign that they also comes from different places and they want to build the new world based on their own characteristics and particular interest.
They strongly believed about myth, premonition and prophecies. One of the prophecies believed that it will come different people namely white. In accepting the different tribe, the white, they feel strange and amazed of them. They thought that the coming of white race would crowd out the red men. They anticipate of their coming with some believe:
The white will use any ways to get what they want
They white will got lot of everything
The white is the noble person that comes from heaven
The white will trapped them
Native American also learn how to plant the pumpkin and corn that they can harvest them. After knowing how to plant they start a new life. In the reality Native is not as bad as what we have thought they also learn and some of them studied at college. It was a proof that Native also educated person that can build the civilization.
Native also can live with the white and they did not kill each other. Although some of them became slaves but some of the slaves tries to get freedom. On the other hand some native dream that they will meet the white as their parents. So they will get a better life as the white.
Native American had developed some three hundred distinct cultures and spoke over two hundred different languages. North America was well discovered by the time Columbus and his kind set foot on its shores. Actually Columbus not the first European arrive. In fact, some scholars suggest that the first non – Indians came from Asia there are Buddhist texts that tell of five beggar priests who sailed from China in A. D 458. The first contact as the initial encounters between Native American and the white are termed by anthropologist, occurred at different time and places. Generally the more eastern and southern the locale, the earlier was the first contact.
Indian society was the eve of what was to be the most catastrophic confrontation in its history. The Wasco Indians of Oregon have a prophecy story in which a wise old man dreams of strangers with hair on their faces coming from the direction of the rising sun. When he awaken, he gives this advice to his fellow tribesmen: “ You people must be careful”
1. He will use any means to get what he wants
It is known that white man is an intelligent person, an inventor of many words, a man who knows to influence people because of his sweet way of talking and that he will use many of these things upon us when he comes.
2. White Rabbit got lotsa everything
White Rabbits- white people- gonta devour the grass, seed and living.
3. Visitors from heaven
One time, about two hundred years ago, in a place called Fort Hope, Ontario, there was a settlement of Ojibway Indians where there was a medicine man who brought visitors from heaven to a huge wigwam shaped like a beaver house.
4. Thunder’s dream comes true
Thunder was born in the vicinity of Montreal where the great spirit first placed the Sauk Nation, and inspired him with a belief that, at the end of four years, he should see a white man, who would be to him a father. Finally he met the white man and told him that white man was the son of the King of France.
5. Easy life of the gray eyed
The prophecy said that when the native American met the Gray eyes they begin to eat iron stick, the tones will grow louder even to the parents, disobedient. Then they will mix with these gray eyed people and they will learn their ways, break up homes, murder and steal.
6. The spider web
Drinks Water dreamed that the four leggeds were going back into the earth and that the strange race had woven a spider’s web all around the Lakotas and he Said” when this happens, you shall live in square gray houses, in a barren land, and beside those square gray houses you shall starve”. Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.
Face to face
On Friday, October 12, 1942, when Christopher Columbus and his men hauled their armed landing boat up on the island in the Bahamas to which he gave the name San Salvador, the local Taino Indian were awestruck. Two years later he shipped off live hundred West Indian natives as slaves nearly all of them died of disease. Thus began the wholesale enslavement of the Island Indian by Spain, which virtually annihilated the native peoples of the Caribbean.
The explorers, treasure hunters, traders, missionaries, trappers, soldiers, and colonists who followed in the wake of Columbus represented a number of separate cultures. Each brought to the new world their own national characteristics and particular interests.
Stories based on face to face encounters became part of tribal folklore. It is interesting how many of the selections that follow underscore the cultural conflicts that have plagued Indian-white relations down to the present day.
1. Their wondrous works and ways
Born with the Indian name “The Pitiful Last” but later called “The Winner”, Eastman did not see white person until he was sixteen. He then became one of a stream of Indians who since the eighteen century had attended Dartmouth college.
Wacan is the mysterious race whose power bordered upon the supernatural. They had made a “fireboat” that united two element which cannot exist together. They made some of their people servant, slaves. And now the slaves have children born to them of the same color. The white had desire to possess the whole world.
2. Before they got thick
Some of white wanted to kill the black but others wanted to be brothers with them and let them alone. The Lipan gave the black some pumpkin seed and the seed corn and the way to use them. They started a new life. They were getting along very well. After that, they began to get thick.
3. Silmoodawa gives a complete performance.
Silmoodawa shot animal with a bow, bled him, skinned and dressed him, slice up the meat, and spread it out on flakes to dry, he then cooked a portion and ate it.
4. A different kind of man
Lone white Man lived among Native for many years, but never married.
5. I hid myself and watched
Pretty Shield told the people “I Had never seen a white man before. I ran away home and told the people I had seen something out there coming toward the sheep. It looked like a man, I said, but had wool all over its face. I thought the whiskers were wool, and I wasn’t sure it was a man.
B. ANALYSIS
Native American, like human societies everywhere had developed cultures and spoke different languages and bands so small as “tribelets” shows that they can live in different style and can accept the different thought of human being. They keep help hand in hand to keep their generation. It also as a sign that they also comes from different places and they want to build the new world based on their own characteristics and particular interest.
They strongly believed about myth, premonition and prophecies. One of the prophecies believed that it will come different people namely white. In accepting the different tribe, the white, they feel strange and amazed of them. They thought that the coming of white race would crowd out the red men. They anticipate of their coming with some believe:
The white will use any ways to get what they want
They white will got lot of everything
The white is the noble person that comes from heaven
The white will trapped them
Native American also learn how to plant the pumpkin and corn that they can harvest them. After knowing how to plant they start a new life. In the reality Native is not as bad as what we have thought they also learn and some of them studied at college. It was a proof that Native also educated person that can build the civilization.
Native also can live with the white and they did not kill each other. Although some of them became slaves but some of the slaves tries to get freedom. On the other hand some native dream that they will meet the white as their parents. So they will get a better life as the white.
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