Takaki’s idea of contradictions in the history of the United States and the indigenous or migrating people can be seen as deception more than contradictions in some cases. The instances Takaki tackles are contradictions, but all have deception on a basis of an presumed moral high ground by a party. Contradictions are statements that are dichotomies such as “all men are created equal” ,but having an economy dependent on human labor. Deception is more variant than contradictions because it could have any level of truth, but it will be overshadowed by the central façade. Deception and contradiction can be similar, but in some cases such as Takaki’s portrayal of Andrew Jackson’s war against the Creeks it is evident that he told his soldiers that they were doing the right thing ,but in reality this deception is only to justify the atrocities that matches the description he gave of the Creeks: “cannibals who reveled in the carnage of our unoffending Citizens at Fort Meems… who Smiles at the torture he inflicts and who neither spares female innocence, declining age nor helpless infancy”(80).…show more content… He designates the Native Americans to a location outside of white society and it guaranteed it “to the Indian tribes as long as they shall occupy it” which is basically a warning for those Native Americans who would dare overstep the newly established bounds and as a publicity stunt to have Andrew Jackson seem as moral as possible. There are instances where the deception could be systematic like in David Walker’s case in being a free black man due to his mother’s status, but relegated to menial
