General Armstrong Custer

True Native Amereicans want to mock the motives of those who want to be apart of a culture that they once shunned. It should be the occupation of descending Native Americans. The confusion and stereotypes from another culture does not lighten the load of their struggle. dentified with “the aura of the savage warrior…and the instinctive animal” (3). Even being called an “Indian” is a little appaling, even to the minority of Native Americans. Had the trend continued they would not have discovered that “most tribes were entirely female for the first three hundred years of white occupation”(2) is merely a myth. The lack of a tropical climate and “the absense of elephents apperently did not tip off the [Spanish] explorers that they were not in India”(5). The Native Americans are and have always been in a constant struggle to defend their identities and land. Non-natives also make an attempt to claim Native American heritage.

The claiming of Indian heritage was nonexistent until the Native American culture was found to have some sort of significance to the devopment of the United States and its culture. American folklore presents the existince of Native Americans to the world as violent savages and dimensional primitives. Native Americans are, again, put into a position where they have to defend their identities and land from those who want to claim it as theirs. After being of European descent became boring, having some sort of “blood tie with the frontier…in order to experience what it means to be an American”(4) guaranteed them the satisfaction of being as American as apple pie. When they claim it most of them “claim it on their grandmothers’ side”(3).