From as early as the time of the early European settlers, Native Americans have suffered

tremendously. Native Americans during the time of the early settlers where discriminated against and still are today. At the arrival of the Europeans there was an estimated one million to eighteen million Native Americans (meaning living above Mexico) in population. There is also said there was about three hundred languages spoken at the time. Anthropologists have tried to summarize "the cultural practices and reduce the cultural complexity and they have come with twelve major cultural areas. But, materia

Some of my feeling, responses, and attitudes are written throughout the paper. Although, I do feel glad that things turned out for the best for both Taylor and Turtle. I also feel that Taylor did have the courage to leave her hometown because that is not something that everyone can do and know that from experience. I am one of five to leave my little hometown (outside of El Paso) who right now I am one of three that has not gone back home except to visit. Since the Native Americans families are so close knit just like the Hispanics, I know she and her mother would have been ridiculed because one, she was leaving the family, two, they probably said she did not care for her family, and third, what in the world is she going to do out there by herself. But, knowing this is said about you, you feel the need to prove yourself to everybody and prove them wrong. When you do you have succeeded. I can not imagine leaving in an old car and hoping it gets me where I need to go that would have been hard on a person especially, knowing you are on a tight budget and to top it off you are given this little person to take off when you can barely take care of yourself. But, I am glad she found people to surround her that were very helpful in her starting a new life. Everybody needs someone like that. It is amazing to see caring, willing, and intelligent she was made out to be. Though there was times were I thought Taylor was just a bit to naive and caring that she did not notice things. I can also relate to Lou Ann in some odd way... I am going to get married outside my culture and eventhough I have not heard any bad comments about I can sometimes see when we clash culturally and it can make a world of difference. My fiance is American and of course, I am Hispanic we both are close to our families yet, the way we were raised causes problems between us. We can say it does not cause problems but, it does and things can be uncomfortable. My parents worry that his family has a prejudice against Hispanic and vice versa but, I think it is only natural to have a bit of suspicion of each other. Mattie I like simply because she is fighting for what she believes in and in some weird kind of way she is advocating for the rights of others. I think she would have been a good social worker. In all the novel was good even though I got a bit bored with it at times.

The dilemma brought forth to Marietta (Taylor) in the novel The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver, is that growing up in Pittman, a small rural town in Kentucky a town in which pregnancy was common among the youth. It was also a town where not many people were educated and not many would want to live. Marietta was one who did not want to be one of the youth mentioned because she is much smarter and better than that. She then decides to leave her hometown soon after high school in an old beat up 1955 Volkswagen ending up in the outskirts of Tucson, Arizona. The plan did turn be as simple as it sounded. Along the way she acquires an Indian child abandoned in the backseat of the car. But the trials and obstacles along the way create an experience that far exceeds anything possible.

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