Native American Settlers

This land you land, this land is my land, and this land was made for you and me. Meaning the land belongs to the Europeans, not the Indians. In order to make it theirs, the European settler came up with an agenda that supports their ideology. According to Terry Eagleton, ideology is “deeply entrenched, often unconscious beliefs which people; hold […] more particularly[,] those modes of feeling, valuing, perceiving and believing which have some kind of relation to the maintenance and reproduction of social power” (13). Deloria defines ideology as a “broad set of cultural expectations are both the products and tools of domination and that they are inheritance that haunts each and every one of us” (4). Deloria states, ideology “engage[s] the contradictions …show more content…
These treaties were meant to provide rations and hunting rights (Deloria 17). However, the European-settler government implemented white laws that countered the treaties, which made it possible for the settler government to make it illegal for the Indians to hunt for survival (Deloria 17). After the government broke promises and cut rations promised to the Indians, the Indians were starving, so they crossed the boundaries of the reservations to hunt, gather, and bartering for beef, venison, and mutton (Deloria 17). This irritated the settlers because the Indians were taking away from profiting off gaming licenses and hunting as a tourist attraction with a price attached to the animals for gaming. The believed the Indians were lazy, because the Indians received treaty-guaranteed rations from the government, the lazy nomadic hunting Indians had the nerve to threaten their own livelihoods (Deloria 17-18). Because the Indians were a threat to their livelihood of the settlers’ hunting prospects of making profits from hunting and leisure, the settlers dubbed the Indians’ leaving the reservation, the Indian …show more content…
Outbreak became a familiar key word in representations of Indian violence, where it helped to negotiate the ambiguous period in which the settler-colonial government (Deloria 21). Indian outbreak was a common fear during the first years of Indian reservation management, because for the first time, the Indians had a place to break out from before reservations were part of their lives. The words outbreak, rebellion, and uprising revealed a fear of the Indians “escaping the spatial, economic, political, social, and military restrictions placed on them by the reservation regime” (Deloria 21). According to Deloria, outbreak “suggested a particular kind of armed resistance, a rebellion that would never produce renewed autonomy, a pocket of stubbornness in the midst of the sweep of the American empire” (21). Deloria presented Wounded Knee as the catalyst to Indian resistance against European settlers; in turn, the settlers used this incident in time to brand Indian resistance as Indian violence

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