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Rhetorical analysis assignment

Native American issues
What does it mean to be an American? What does that represent?
For most, it is a symbol of identity, pride and progress, but for the
oppressed is basically the opposite. Native Americans have struggle
since the first colonization landed on their territory, from that moment
a push-and-pull fight to maintain property begun, leaving natives with
nothing but their own to protect their culture from intruders.
In order to express what natives felt while facing this obstacles
words are not enough, something as appealing as images are
necessary. This image of vastly represents the natives thoughts from a
society imposed by a foreign rule. The fact that a culture was built on
top theirs sparked a burning rage that drove a series of violent
confrontations among inhabitants and aliens. The flag flying backwards
represents a defeat, the loss of the Americans against the immigrants.
In consequence, they had to shape themselves to fit in the molds of a
new and imposed culture. The borders surrounding the camping area
means repression of land and mind, forced to live in specific areas and
think accordingly their repressors. Another point is that the tent is
looks rustic, or as traditional as possible and the American flag has fifty

stars which means is a recent image, therefore illustrating how cultural

they are.
However, Indians keep
on trying to find their place
in society as it is today,
tapped in the past, and left
alone during progression,
the natives hope for the best when their needs are in question. Natives
are often discarded during the decision taking on Aspects such as
health care, schooling, territory and politics. For instance, According to
U.S. Census Bureau in 2013, there were roughly 5.2 million American
Indians and Alaska Natives living in the U.S., representing
approximately 2% of the U.S. total population.
Native Americans are wildly overrepresented in the criminal justice
system. In South Dakota, for example, Native Americans make up 9
percent of the total population, but 29 percent of the prison population.

Today American Indians are

taken as mascots or amusements
for cultural background references
yet they kept on doing what they
being thought. Families,
traditions, cuisine even style are
kept the same among the remaining tribes.
Natives find themselves in an awkward situation because they
are under a government that protects their values as long as they
forget them, this means, forgetting what they are and their roots to
search for stability in an unsuitable community,

Rhetorical analysis assignment

Xavier Cruz Delgado