On page 7, Orange states: "We’ve been defined by everyone else and continue to be slandered despite easy-to-look-up-on-the-internet facts about the realities of our histories and current state as a people." Discuss this statement in relation to how Native populations have been defined in popular culture. Consider the following statement from page 9: "We stayed because the city sounds like a war, and you can’t leave a war once you’ve been, you can only keep it at bay." In what ways does the historical precedent for violent removal of Native populations filter into the modern era? How does violence-both internal and external-appear throughout the narrative?Ĥ. How does it relate to the push for assimilation by the United States government? How do the characters in There There navigate this modern form of identity alongside their ancestral roots?ģ. Discuss the development of the "Urban Indian" identity and ownership of that label. How does this relate to the erasure of Native identity in American culture?Ģ. How did reading this section make you feel? How does the prologue set the tone for the reader? Discuss the use of the Indian head as iconography. The prologue of There There provides a historical overview of how Native populations were systematically stripped of their identity, their rights, their land, and, in some cases, their very existence by colonialist forces in America.
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