What I thought through this story is that it is so painful that me Japanese could not come up with. Because racial and colonial issues are not so common in Japan, there is not an immigrant country, so there are not so many opportunities to think about it in common life. Before I finished this book, somehow, I thought the Joe and his family are white because I had recognized native equal white because of my stereotype. I realized that I still have stereotypes and do not know much about the US. Also, because the book was published in 2012, it seems that there are such many sad and painful situations hit Native American even now. Louise wrote this book as misery as she could I think. By writing in this way, she wanted all readers to know and consider…show more content… Suquamish. We should focus on PL280 and Oliphant v. Suquamish in particular. PL280 is a law which gave certain states criminal and civil jurisdiction over Indian lands within their borders. (Erdrich,142) It is also to eliminate federal recognition of Indian nations and force Native people to assimilate into the mainstream U.S. population.” (At the Mercy of the State, 37) On the surface, it created to consider Indian, but there is no jurisdiction for them, and this means Geraldine cannot prosecute. Also, tribal government “doesn’t have the money to implement a comprehensive anti-rape strategy.” (Door, 42) There is not enough money because neither federal nor tribal have the jurisdiction of them. It can be said as jurisdictional vacuum which no one has responsibility for the jurisdiction, so it has vacuum. Oliphant v. Suquamish is the decision of the Supreme Court and since then, “tribal nations have lacked the power and authority to prosecute crimes committed by no-Indians”. (Door, 41) In ‘the Round House’ Bazil explains Joe about some rights and mentioned about Oliphant v. Suquamish “this one is the one I’d abolish right this minute if I had the power of a movie shaman.” (229) Bazil mourn that he has no right to change it though he is a lawyer. Linden might know this law and so he crimes a…show more content… laws fail to provide justice to Native women who experience rape which is serious. In the Round House, Bazil says “Marshall vested absolute title to the land in the government and gave Indians nothing more than the right of occupancy, a right that could be taken away at any time.” (Erdrich, 229) Although the land was Indian’s, the Europeans occupied Indians and made the land themselves. It called settler colonialism. Europeans are definitely settler in this situation, they made their laws to settle in the land. Bazil also mentioned that “the language he used survives in the law.” (229) This is classified as institutional racism. Because of the laws, Indians are not able to participate as non-natives. This is also said to Oliphant v. Suquamish that there are no rights for native in the specific area. From a biggest situation in the book, Geraldine was attacked because she is native woman, we can see the problem of intersectionality. “Though rape is always an act of violence, indigenous women are more likely than most other women to suffer additional violence at the hands of their attackers.” (WGS101 [May 10]) It is obvious that gender and race is big causes to make the situation that native women are attacked by other from this
