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As common in Indian cultures they create a myth to explain why the white people came to them. The author begins to show the Indians feeling of hopelessness by showing in the myth, on pages 132 - 138, that there was no way the Indians could stop the white people from destroying the Indian culture. "Entire tribes will die out, covered with jestered sores, shitting blood, vomiting blood." (pg. 137) The myth says that the white people will cause chaos, killing their people and taking their land. That is exactly what they ended up doing. The Indians are hopeless because there is nothing they could have done because according to the myth once the
Indians knew what was coming it was to late to stop it. "It's already turned loose. It's
Names mentioned in this term paper
Leslie Silko, Tayo,
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Indians,
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the indians, white people, the white, the white people, the native americans, indian culture, Leslie Silko, extreme poverty, good and evil, displays, desert land, living conditions, hopeless, Ceremony, cattle, stereotype, vomiting, no good, drunken, shitting, hate, chaos, no respect, internal, Mexican, veterans, pain, common, disease, plant, pages,
