Charles Alexandra Eastman

Speech by Charles Eastman and me

"The true Indian sets no price upon either his property or his labor. His generosity is limited only by his strength and ability. He regards it as an honor to be selected for difficult or dangerous service and would think it shameful to ask for any reward, saying rather: "Let the person I serve express his thanks according to his own bringing up and his sense of honor. Each soul must meet the morning sun, the new sweet earth, and the Great Silence alone!. What is Silence? It is the Great Mystery! The Holy Silence is His voice!

Whenever, in the course of the daily hunt, the hunter comes upon a scene that is strikingly beautiful or sublime -- a black thundercloud with the rainbow's arch above the mountain, a white waterfall in the heart of a green gorge, a vast prairie tinged with the blood-red of the sunset -- he pauses for an instant in an attitude of worship and prayer.

He sees no need for setting apart one day in seven as a holy day, because to him everyday is gods day. Children must early learn the the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving"

-Charles Eastman was born in February 19, 1858 on reservation near Redwood and died in January 8, 1939.
-He is a Native American author, physician and activist.
-He was raised by his grandmother until the father he thought was dead came back and encouraged him to go to college and do something with his life.

Charles Eastman's Accomplishment

-Eastman was the recipient of the first Indian Achievement Award.
-He was the first Native American physician to serve on the Pine Ridge Reservation.
-He wrote about 11 books about the Native Americana and their histories. The first book he wrote is called "Indian Boyhood" which was published in 1902. It told the story of his own first years and upbringing and was an immediate success with the public.
-He worked as field secretary for the International Committee of the YMCA, and spent the three years traveling throughout the US and Canada visiting many Indian tribes to start new YMCAs in those areas.

Contribution to society:

-His used his training as a physician, to help people in the Pine Ridge Reservation.
-He worked in BIA project to re-name the Sioux, giving them legal names in order to protect their interests.
-He also began a lifelong association with the Boy Scouts of America, and from 1914 to 1925 he and Elaine operated a girls' camp near Munsonville.
-Charles Eastman's most important contribution to American letters is as a writer of autobiography and as a preserver of Sioux Indian legends, myths, and history.


List of books written by Charles Eastman

Red Hunters and the Animal People (1904),
Old Indian Days (1906),
Wigwam Evenings (1909),
Smoky Day’s Wigwam Evenings: Indian Stories Retold (1910),
The Soul of the Indian (1911),
Indian Child Life (1913),
Indian Scout Talks (1914),
The Indian Today: The Past and Future of the First American (1915),
From the Deep Woods to Civilization (1916), and
Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains (1918).

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Sources:
http://www.indians.org/welker/ohiyesa.htm
http://www.worldwisdom.com/Public/Authors/Detail.asp?AuthorID=6&WhatType=1
http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/eastman.htm

analyze and identify rhetoric and persuasive language.

Do Now: Can you recall a quote, speech, parable or lesson that inspired you, changed your perspective on life, or made you stop and think? Identity it and explain reasons why.

"The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it."
-Plutarch
This quote made me stop and think that life can be really short, short as a moment, so we should live our life and do something good with it instead of misusing it and do bad things to people. I like this quote because it direct and if you really think about it. Its true.


The Gettysburg Address

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate - we cannot consecrate - we cannot hallow - this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham Lincoln - November 19, 1863

chief joseph's speech

Interpret the following quotes:
“The Earth is the mother of all people and all people should have equal rights upon it."
-Chief Joseph
This quote is saying that the earth is the mother of all people because earth is like the mother giving us shelter and providing us with food and everyone should have equal right to it. everyone should share earth and treat everyone with equality

Answer on your Blogs:
How is the art of rhetoric evident in Chief Joseph’s speech?
He is being very persuasive to the council member about not selling the land which they live on and how he dosent want to start a war. he just wants the indians and the white people to get along with each other and live peacefully. also because he is repeating himself on by saying he dosent want war or bloodshed.

Who is he addressing in this speech?
Mostly he is addressing the white people. he is trying to convince them that he dosent want to fight with them he just want to live peacefully in his homeland.

Who is he indicting and why?

Identify any heroic characteristics?

Why is this speech Protest Literature?
This is a protest literature because he is protesting against the

“I Am What I Am” written by Nahida A. and Bilkis A.

I am what I am
I am American but I am proud of my origin
I am Bengali and I am proud of who I am
I am a person of mixed cultureI am a true Bengali-always and forever

I am a immigrant
And so am I
I am a city girl
I am a simple girl from the village

I like to party and have fun
I rather stay home and cook
I like to go to the movies with my friends
I prefer to spend time in my village

I am happy living in America
I want to go back to my country
My future is here in America
My life is in Bangladesh

letter to Tim o' Brien author of Ambush

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Dear speaker

After reading this narrative I have realized that I know what you have felt during all these time. I understand how it felt to keep a secret from some one you love and suffer. I know that you want to tell your daughter the truth about what happened that night in my khe and come clean about your past and at the same time you don't want to tell her the truth because you are afraid that she is going to hate you for what you did.

I admire you for fighting for your country. I am not saying that you did the right thing by killing that young person with the grenade. I mean he might have done the same thing to you if the situation was reversed. I admire you for admitting that what you did was wrong. I admire you admitting that you feel guilty for what you did . I know that you really didn't want to kill that man but you did what you thought was necessary. I admire you for making a hard decision to possibly save many people lives.

While reading the narrative many question came into my mind. Some of these question may seem a little personal but I want to ask them anyway. If you could go back in time to the moment that you killed this man would you change your decision about whether to kill this guy or not. Another question would be do you think that the war you were fighting for had the wrong reason? Another question is that Did you tell your daughter about what happened now that she is older and more mature?


Please reply to this mail in the mailing address. Thank you very much for your cooperation. I am looking forward to your reply.

sincerely,
Nahida Akter

Wik-elements from Olaudah Equiano Narrative

Wik-elements: here is where you will identify the following elements in Equiano’s narrative: You will give definitions of each literary element and identify them in the text.

-Identify Genre - a kind of literary or artistic work

-Symbolism - the practice of representing things by symbols

-Imagery - the formation of mental images

-Plot: sequence of events - Also called storyline. the plan, scheme, or main story of a literary or dramatic work, as a play, novel, or short story.

-Characters - an account of the qualities or peculiarities of a person or thing.

-Setting - the surroundings or environment of anything

-Conflicts (internal)
- man vs. self

-Conflicts (external)
- man vs. man
- man vs. society

-Point of View - A position from which something is observed or considered


WORK ON THIS

Wiki-cabulary from Olaudah Equiano Narrative

Wiki-cabulary: i.e. all vocabulary words and appropriate definitions this will be ongoing, but you will need to include the title of the work for us to easily identify where to find these words

"To that Heaven which protects the weak from the strong, I commit the care of your innocence and virtues, if they have not already received their full reward, and if your youth and delicacy have not long since fallen victims to the violence of the African trader, the pestilential stench of a Guinea ship, the seasoning in the European colonies, or the lash and lust of a brutal and unrelenting overseer."

Pestilential - annoyingly troublesome.

"This produced copious perspirations, so that the air soon became unfit for respiration, from a variety of loathsome smells, and brought on a sickness among the slaves, of which many died, thus falling victims to the improvident avarice, as I may call it, of their purchasers."

Avarice - desire for wealth

"Often did I think many of the inhabitants of the deep much more happy than myself. I envied them the freedom they enjoyed, and as often wished I could change my condition for theirs."

Inhabitants - One that inhabits a place, especially as a permanent resident

"Every circumstance I met with served only to render my state more painful, and heighten my apprehensions, and my opinion of the cruelty of the whites."

Apprehension - suspicion or fear of future trouble

"The noise and clamour with which this is attended, and the eagerness visible in the countenances of the buyers serve not a little to increase the apprehensions of the [Page 87] terrified Africans, who may well be supposed to consider them as the ministers of that destruction to which they think themselves devoted. In this manner, without scruple, are relations and friends separated, most of them never to see each other again."

Clamour - loud uproar, as from a crowd of people