IHSS HW: Native American Writing Response Blog
Aiden Cunningham Mr. Roddy IHSS 14 October 2021 IHSS HW: Native American Writing Response Blog The major theme I saw in the Native American writings was the expectation that Native Americans were expected to be submissive to and less smart than the ‘non-Indians’. Native Americans were always expected to be the ones in the back of the class struggling and the ones who sometimes try things considered only for smart academics, but who will never amount to the ‘non-Indians’. This discouraged many young Native American writers from following their passions towards the career path of being an expert writer, and it also kept them from publishing their writing works due to fear of being rejected: "Those who failed were ceremonially accepted by other Indians and appropriately pitied by non-Indians." Many young authors had a hard time finding the ability to get their books heard in the onslaught of book publishing. Despite these expectations and imposing situ...