Oglala

Oglala The first few chapters that were assigned for Monday painted a picture of an Indian society that has been influenced by a white majority in a negative way. Like the Bedouins Stories book, Oglala Women shows the change from tradition to modernization. The colonization of the west has ruined tradition in the Oglala culture, not to mention every other Indian culture in the US. This cannot be changed, this is forever. Reservation life is the major factor for corrupting the Lakota and Oglalas. When the whites forced Indians to live on reservations such as Pine Ridge, their lifestyles changed completely. I believe this is one of the biggest reasons why tradition is no longer prevalent in many Indian tribes today. Living on a reservation is like living in another country within a country. The Indians are forced to live by our government, but at the same time live off their own government. Powers’ description of “the compound” was eerie to me. First off describing a indian, tradition, oglala, women, way, reservation, off, live, indians, government, first, tribes, time, really, one, modernization, living, last, lakota, forced, culture, country, compound, changed, change, back, another, wrong, within, whites, white, west, waco, unique, tricky