The Ghost Dance War Summary

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As we’ve read works by Standing Bear, Ida B. Wells, and Charles Alexander Eastman, I’ve been struck by the authors’ commitment to logos and matter-of-fact storytelling, especially after analyzing the rhetoric of Standing Bear’s “What I am Going to Tell You Here Will Take Me Until Dark.” Because of this pattern, I’ve been thinking about the pressure on marginalized individuals to present their oppression in a logical, “rational” way in order to be respected, or as Dr. Ersula Ore described, in order to be “legible.” Today I still often see people dismiss individuals’ experiences as irrational because they’ve told their stories with anger or frustration. If this still happens today, I can only imagine how harmful it was in the nineteenth century. …show more content…
For instance, when Eastman states, “As for the poor Indians, they were quite as badly scared as the whites and perhaps with more reason” (669), I was almost disappointed with his hedging. This “perhaps” did not sit comfortably with me when just two sentences before he was describing “cowboys and militia gather[ing]” to defend against “the ‘red devils’” (669). Admittedly, I have no way to know if this neutral storytelling is reflective of his own preferences (for reporting or otherwise) or if it was in response to the pressure discussed above—but regardless, I wonder if this style would make the same impact it made at the
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