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Anne Marie Marler

Cooper
AP Language Pd. 3
9/2/2016
Summer Reading Assignment - Like a Hurricane

Speaker Entry

Chapter 7 The American Indian Movement

The American Indian Movement. The name of this group that had so decisively grabbed

the agenda at (a racist murder in) Gordon was perfection itself. Perfect because it

sounded authoritative and inclusive. Perfect because it suggested action, purpose, and

forward motion. Perfect because it was big, transcending the lesser world committees and

associations and congresses and councils Movements changed history. (127)

Speaker Response:

In this piece from Chapter 7, the speaker, or speakers, clarifies themselves as in support

of and a member of the American Indian Movement, otherwise known as AIM. The

passage suggests the speaker's emphasis on the perfection of the movement, and how the

speaker believed in all of which AIM represented. The speaker provokes biased opinions

on the suggested action, purpose, and forward motion of AIM. Their experiences prove

that they understand the importance of a movement's agenda, and how movements

(have) changed history.

Occasion Entry

Chapter 11 All Things Twice

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Actor Marlon Brando had been famous for decades, but never more so than in early

1973. The Godfather had been a critical and commercial triumph With hundreds of

millions watching the Academy Awards broadcast, Brando declined his Academy Award

for The Godfather, and sent Apache actress named Sacheen Littlefeather in front of the

cameras to explain why. (Brando himself had planned to be at Wounded Knee during the

award ceremony, but this effort failed.) (235-236)

Occasion Response:

In Chapter 11, Smith and Warrior use an example of public controversy from the early

1970s to back the authors arguments in support of the American Indian Movement at this

time. The relevance of the Academy Awards being during a movement at Wounded Knee

influenced and affected not only those involved with AIM, but also the majority of

America. The occasion supports the authors arguments by representing the impact of

AIM onto the public, and the methods in which others could see the actions of the

movement taking place.

Audience Entry

Chapter 9 Border Town Campaign

Indians met with Rapid City school administrators, city officials, and church leaders.

Tensions ran high, but the street fighting ended. AIM leaders also met with the mayors of

other towns, county commissioners, and states attorneys. Outside the Fall River

Courthouse in Hot Springs, townspeople watched as one hundred Indians sang the AIM

song (186-187)
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Audience Response:

Through this excerpt describing the Border Town Campaign, the author persuades to an

audience of white townspeople and American Indians, both whom were affected by the

American Indian Movement, or AIM. The authors use examples of how street fighting

ended as AIM leaders met with mayors, county commissioners, and states

attorneys. By the author showing cases of Indians taking action with townspeople, a

certain audience becomes appealed to the idea of AIM and all that the movement has to

offer underrepresented American Indians.

Purpose Entry

Chapter 2 We Wont Move

Alcatraz belonged to Indians of All Tribes, and that was exactly the problem. No one

had imagined how much goodwill or how much disunity would come on the heels of

the late night crossing in November The press called (Richard Oakes) the mayor of

Alcatraz, but this city was like no other. Those same press stories and many of the

occupiers would mistakenly designate Alcatraz as the beginning point of modern Indian

radicalism. (35)

Purpose Response:

Smith and Warrior are showing examples of how the press and other groups from the

public wrongly address Alcatraz as the beginning point of modern Indian radicalism.
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The two are attempting to accomplish, and are successful of, displaying proof of what

was exactly the problem at Alcatraz in the late 1960s. Through Smith and Warriors

description of the goodwill and much disunity that the Indians of All Tribes

experienced, the reader sees their purpose to prove the mistaken ideas of what the city of

Alcatraz was.

Subject Entry

Chapter 1 Leap of Faith

The wish to terminate, relocate, and assimilate Indians had powerful support in the U.S.

Congress. Myer would be gone by 1953, replaced by a banker from New Mexico, but

during the 1950s the process of terminating several tribes would begin, with disastrous

results. More than thirty-five thousand Indians moved to urban areas between 1952 and

1960. (8)

Subject Response:

In this description of the U.S. Congresss decisions and actions taken upon American

Indians to terminate, relocate, and assimilate, the focus of this piece falls on the

prejudice displayed towards American Indians being affected by Congress at this time.

The powerful support shown against the American Indian movement in Congress and

by the privileged public presents the disastrous results that would attack the Indians

throughout the 1950s. The author presents this subject of inequality and discrimination

using a chronologically ordered system.

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Tone Entry

Chapter 12 Hundred Gun Salute

We are tired, Gladys said. We dont care if we die here. We cant even turn in our

complaints. We turn in our petitions- theres nothing done The Indians, we never get

listened to. As if to prove the point, on May 2, a Rapid City jury completed its

deliberations in the trial of Darld Schmitz, the white man who stabbed Wesley Bad Heart

Bull in a reservation border town five months earlier. The jury acquitted Schmitz of

second degree manslaughter. Sarah Bad Heart Bull, Wesleys mother, and dozens of

other Indians still faced riot charges from the melee in Custer in February. (261)

Tone Response:

In this passage from the chapter, Hundred Gun Salute, the writers show their anger and

frustration towards the unjust system against the American Indians and the Indian

movement. The writer presents an impatient attitude regarding how the Indians are

treated by congress and the country. When the American Indians state that theres

nothing done towards the help of the natives, the reader receives the effect of the

writers tone about the anger of all that has gone wrong. The writer also portrays

persistence to create a movement in which will help the Indians feel more recognized and

protected in their country.

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Work Cited

Smith, Paul Chaat, and Robert Allen Warrior. Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from
Alcatraz to Wounded Knee. New York: The New Press, 1996. Print.