Louise Erdrich's Indian Boarding Roadway

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In the nineteenth century, the Native Americans had a rough time to remain in their territory. Because the Native Americans had to forcefully relocate to a different place considering of the seasons adjustments. The animals they eat are migrating to a open lands with more greenery herbs. Since the U.S. Army is expanding, the Native Americans are being place into cottages or restricted boundaries. The Native American had always been afraid of the Americans because of the rumors that their ancestors had said.

The animals that they eat are migrating to a place that is full of herbs’. A flock of buffalos takes off to find food that is full of enrichments. The fish are moving to a warmer lake so they could lay their eggs and mate. The birds and the jackrabbits sets out to find a new home so they could find better shelter and food. It makes the Native Americans more gullible because the animal’s are travelling and need them for food in order to survive.
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Army are taking over lands and making the Native Americans to head out. Because the army is expanding, it requires more territory and placing the Native Americans into cottages or restricted boundaries. It also forces the Native Americans to go to boarding school. In the poem of Indian Boarding School: The Roadways by: Louise Erdrich says, “ In this poem, she writes from the point of view of the Native American children struggles in the environment of the government school.” She explains that the Native American children struggles adapting to the government school but it also forces them to take away their Native American spirit like changing their clothes into rags, forcing them into train boxes and more. But for some Indians, they are willing to stand their ground and fight for their territory. Plus, the technology that the army has, the Native Americans do not have a chance to win against the