Sunday, March 27, 2011

On the Reservation

Reservations, Natives are the first ones to come to mind. However, it doesn't have to be like the book, Montana 1948, says. Some reservations are quite grassy and not barren. There may still be a lot of reservations left all over but there are less than time began with. The numbers are dwindling and the lands are becoming less with industrialization and the coming of technology. Most reservations, if not all, still keep the traditions and old ways, some have modernized but still kept the culture, but some have become modernized and just losing the reservation as a whole.
In a way I wish I had grown up on a reservation or experienced the heritage that is in my blood, but the practices lost over time. Some reservations are...well reserved and some welcome guests and companies. Some set up tours and trinket stores to keep up the income needed. A book exaggerates the truth to an extent, some reservations are barren and some are plentiful and full of life.

We also recently watched a movie called Smoke Signals, which also depicted a dusty area as the reservation's terrain. For some reason Thomas had more of a...Irish accent. But other than the Native girls, the movie was well done. Some funny moments and some sad moments. The warrior looks of the Natives.

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