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Meagan Jaycox
Ms.Cooper
English 3
21 August 2016
Like a Hurricane
court’s decision. ‘As Long as the Rivers shall Run’ featured graphic footage of
state game wardens dragging Indian women across rocks. Hank Adams, who had
been a central figure in the fishing struggles since he had worked with the
National Indian Youth Council there in 1964, was in the film and had also
produced it. The movie inflamed the audience, and when combined with the news
of the court ruling, their growing rage exploded. The Indians launched a ferocious
wave of violence against the building. The earlier actions had been vandalism;
Audience Response:
In this passage the writer and producer of “As Long as the Rivers shall
Run”, is trying to persuade the Indians occupying the BIA office, to accept the
mindset that they have fallen a victim to the systematic corruption of the United
could further enrage the occupiers, and use their vulnerability to cause the
immature destruction, of the BIA office, that ultimately led to the loss of Indian
sympathisers. For the novel, the audience is misinformed Americans, who had
previously heard false versions and accusations of the Indian movement. The
authors address this audience, so that they could share and repeat the correct
“The future of Indian activism would belong to the people far angrier than
the student brigades of Alcatraz. Urban Indians who managed a life beyond the
bottles of cheap wine cruelly named Thunderbird would continue down the
protest road. And, more importantly, the invisible reservation people whose tribal
leaders were so uncomfortable with the wave of direct action that was continuing
to grow, and who had yet to weigh in with their opinion of where the Indian world
Subject Response:
for Native American rights. However, the short passage focuses in more the
divide between urban Indians and the reservation Indians. Up until this point
activism had been lead and executed by the urban Indians focusing on their
specific problems, which often differed from the problems reservation Indians
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faced on a daily basis. As the media attention and activism dragged on, many of
their culture was receiving as a whole. Due to their different ways of life the
reservation Indians also felt misrepresented by the Urban Indians, this caused a
group of Indians enter the movement for Indian rights, it offered a new voice of
Preface
“As coauthors, we came to this project from different places, but with a
in the aftermath of the story chronicled here, traveling to South Dakota in 1974 at
the age of nineteen to work on the Wounded Knee trials. He stayed with the
movement through most of the 1970s, joining the staff of the American Indian
knew of these events, but from a greater distance. While a graduate student, he
wrote in the alternative and Native presses about Indian community issues and
kept running into questions that represented the legacy of the watershed years
featured here. Though not related to Clyde Warrior, whose life is told in the pages
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that follow, he has heard many stories of the Ponca leader from friends and
Speaker Response:
The novel Like a Hurricane, is a third person narrative. The book was
written by two Indian men, Paul Chaat Smith and Robert Allen Warrior, who felt
that the majority of novels written about American Indians were inaccurate. They
thought this for two reasons, none of the novels were written by Indians, which
makes the novel's lack ethos, because the non-indian authors didn’t have the same
intellect of the culture and upbringings as Indians. The books also attempted to
“persuade readers that government policies were cruel and misguided”. Both of
these men grew up at the time the Indian movement was occurring, making them
more prone to being biased and, or inflating the events that occurred, due to
aftermath, in 1974 he participated in the wounded knee trials, and he was also a
the Indian community, and watched the movement from a far. The authors choose
a third person point of view, making the novel intensely factual and dry. They
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tried to make it unbiased to their personal beliefs, in order to make the story as
“ It was, arguably, the finest moment in AIM’s brief and often troubled
history. Together, the chiefs, the local activist, and AIM could accomplish what
individually they could not, a synergy that perfectly realized the vision AIM
always had for itself as a modern-day warrior society and defender of Indian
stand up for Indian people sounded like empty rhetoric and resulted in
embarrassing misadventures, but on that February night, AIM kept every promise
Purpose Response:
The author’s included this passage to enforce the purpose of the novel,
being Native American’s, more specifically AIM’s push for change, and Indian
rights. The passage clarifies the purpose of the novel, describing the unity and
loyalty throughout this culture. In the quote the author mentions AIM’s past
keeping “every promise it had ever made to itself and to Indian people.”
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Eventually, through loss and hardships, the activist achieved small change in the
“Adams opened one office door to see someone rifling through papers. The man
broke down in tears, explaining he was a bureau employee only trying to collect
his personal possessions. He pleaded with Adams not to hurt him. His terror was
so great that Adams had trouble assuring him he would not be harmed, by Adams
or anyone else. The depth of the man’s fear made Adams realize that it would be
almost impossible for people to understand, much less sympathize, with the
unleashed rage that tore through the building two days earlier. Surrounded by the
Occasion Response:
The date was November 8, Adams was checking the BIA office for
stragglers, or any occupiers who refused to leave, the unsafe conditions. Instead,
he found a man who had worked for the BIA. The employee was terrified of
Adams, and begged for Adams not hurt him. This occurred because AIM had just
violently vandalized the entire BIA building, causing lots of people who had
supported the group, to be afraid of them. This passage serves to support the
author’s point that through AIM’s reckless anger, they won’t accomplish
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anything. The novel was written, because the authors felt, the other novels
inaccurately by non-Indians, giving far too much glory to the Indians. That’s why
this novel focuses on the vandalism, destruction and the overall struggles the
“Inside Wounded Knee, there were injuries. One man had been shot
through both legs, another in the hand, and a woman received lacerations from
flying glass. The fourth casualty was the most serious. Buddy Lamont had been
shot and killed. A bullet pierced his heart and shattered the stock of his rifle,
ending his life and, effectively, the Wounded Knee occupation.” (257)
Tone Response:
The tone which appears throughout the novel is helpless and conveys a
sense of chaos, revealing the unorganized childish acts of AIM. In this quote,
another one of AIM's protest has gone down hill. Leaving large amounts of
occupiers injured, starving, arrested, or even dead. Many of the occupiers did not
mean to risk their life for the cause of Indian rights, for example, the majority of
the Indians on Alcatraz, were college students, who saw the movement as a
unpredictable, unorganized, and unprepared for, there was no way for the
situation not to become helpless and unlivable, for occupiers and activist