Their culture and traditional way of life has been pillaged and destroy by the whites. All that remain is a fragment its original self. Life on the reservation is the complete opposite of a nomadic life following buffalos on the open plains. With the buffalo gone, it seems as if half the culture disappear along with it. The “Buffalo road” is now closed to the Native Americans. The reservation was not a happy place for most Native Americans. It is understandable that many Native Americans did not consider life on the reservation a story worth retelling because the Indian way of life did literally end as they enter the reservations. Everything was traded in upon entering the reservation. Native American identity were strip. From the hair to the wardrobe to the language and even the name. All was then replace by American name, language, wardrobe, and hair. The traditional Plains Indians story
Their culture and traditional way of life has been pillaged and destroy by the whites. All that remain is a fragment its original self. Life on the reservation is the complete opposite of a nomadic life following buffalos on the open plains. With the buffalo gone, it seems as if half the culture disappear along with it. The “Buffalo road” is now closed to the Native Americans. The reservation was not a happy place for most Native Americans. It is understandable that many Native Americans did not consider life on the reservation a story worth retelling because the Indian way of life did literally end as they enter the reservations. Everything was traded in upon entering the reservation. Native American identity were strip. From the hair to the wardrobe to the language and even the name. All was then replace by American name, language, wardrobe, and hair. The traditional Plains Indians story