Iowa Review

At this point, Alexie is really trying to be blunt about how the white man messed up his people's home, and at this point, I don't really blame him! He admitted that the United States was the greatest country in the world (doesn't matter to me at all if he thinks that or not), but he has so many problems with it. The way he was talking about the USA being a colony was revealing. Now I can see from the perspective of the Native American. We practically invaded and formed a colony, which still persists today, despite the fact that it is self-governed. By thinking about the United States being predominately Caucasian, I feel the pressure for Native Americans. We, as white people, have largely forgotten the transgressions of our past towards the Native Americans that were here before us since it is convenient for us to forget something distasteful. It must be hard to get acknowledged by the white people in the US when the large majority of them are trying to forget you and your people. For a long time as a kid, I thought that the Native Americans were killed off and that no more of them existed anymore. The fact that that mentality was allowed to persist, gone uncorrected by my supervisors for so long, should be solid proof of this idea.