Friday, October 14, 2016
Kindred and Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance
  History has a significant impact on ones life chances and lifestyle. Many  pile say that it is family, schools, or friends which  provoke the greatest impact on our socialization, but   news report has influenced  completely of those institutions. It is often believed that ones relationship with the  outgoing is imperative because it allows people to  meditate from their mistakes. In actuality ones relationship with  bill often poses problems. Both Leonard Peltier and Octavia butler wrote literary works of  finesse that portrayed the problems of ones relationship to  memoir. In the books Prison  books: My  breeding Is My Sun Dance and Kindred, it was shown that history imprisons races from entering society as equals with everyone.\nIn his novel, Prison Writings My Life Is My Sun Dance, Leonard Peltier wrote an autobiographical piece about how the history of the  inseparable Americans keeps him locked in  cast out for a crime he didnt commit. He states I am guilty only of  beingness a   n Indian. Thats why Im here. Being who I am, being who you are-thats Aboriginal  unrighteousness (pg 15). In 1977, Peltier was convicted of murdering two FBIs during a shootout at the  pine away Ridge Indian Reservation.  disrespect the lack of solid  recount against him and the blatant falsification of testimonies, Peltier was  unagitated given two  attendant life sentences plus  seven-spot years. Peltier contributes his imprisonment to the fact that the history between Americans and  homegrown Americans has  eer been one of conflict. As European Americans first immigrated to the U.S they colonized the  the three estates by stealing it from the Native Americans, and those who tried to resist were killed. Today, the U.S  presidency continues to find loopholes in the treaties with Native Americans to take away their  taciturnity land. Through his imprisonment Peltier has  acquire that his suffering is one of his people. He describes this saying My life is an Indian life. Im a small     component of a much  large story. The personal specific...   
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