"Thunderheart"
North America, from west to east coast, was mostly owned and settled by Native Americans in 1775. Native Americans were the first settlers on North America, but slowly, when the Americans no longer needed Native Americans help, they viewed them as savages and outsiders. So the Americans and the main stream Unites States Native Americans decided to weed out the traditionalists and have them assimilate to the American culture. During 1970s, American Indian Reservations had turmoil within their own people with the clash between cultures (Lakota vs. main stream U.S.) and lost of land as depicted in the film, "Thunderheart." Another issue was identity and dealing with oneself having Indian ancestry. Thunderheart is a medicine man that died in Wounded Knee. His spirit lives on and has sent a hotshot mixed FBI agent to help his people. Ray Levoi is a rule abiding FBI agent whose heritage contains being a quarter of Sioux blood in him, but he does not consider himself as being Indian at all. When asked what nation he is from, he answered "United Nations." Levoi, due to his ancestry, is assigned to work with an experience top FBI agent Frank Coutelle on a homicide on an Indian Reservation called Bear Creek in South Dakota. Levoi was to
We experience racism and discrimination for being yellow-skinned with small eyes. It is like how Black Elk hates the way the modernists think because they do not believe in the old ways. Leroy found out the reason to the unpurified water, but the U. The mining affected the water reservoir that provides drinking water for the Indians living on the Reservation nearby. That way, the government is free of all accusations and ARM would decease to exist with leaders disappearing. At first Levoi resisted the visions and said they were dreams and did not want to smoke the pipe because he thought the Indians' way was ludicrous. tend to dominate the Asians immigrating over telling them to learn English and adopt American ways since they are living here and that is how it is. They still retain their culture, but at the same time do not practice or believe it as much. This mining had some serious side effects to people drinking the contaminated water and getting sick. Little did he know, he would soon look past his stubbornness and made aware of his native culture and the truth about "his people" and on how the U. The tribal police Walter Crow Horse helped him along the way like telling him he needed to bring tobacco when seeing an elder and about the sacred pipe and visions Levoi was receiving. government is framing an innocent man to cover up any secrets about the land and the mining that goes on around there. Levoi, being a quarter Indian, is ashamed of his heritage. government made an elaborate plan to kill him and make it look like Jimmy Looks Twice, a radical Indian protester, killed him. Not until learning more and being more aware of the way the Native Americans lived, did he began to accept who he was and appreciate himself.
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Deer Table,
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Indian Reservations,
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Looks Twice,
Dakota Levoi,
Yellow Hawk,
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