SaraRemaley

The Creation of the Whites

Out of all of the Native American Literature that we have read, I enjoyed The Creation of the Whites the most. I did a random web search on the title of this short story, and reallys started to think about it. The Native American culture is so different from ours. It is clear that the story was revolved around Genesis, but they put a different spin on it. The Native Americans use their own experiences and cultural background and integrate it into the story. The story refers to the people as "yellow skinned" and "red skinned", obviously the way that they refered to people of different races. I love how the story explains how the different races were placed into the environmental settings that we all know they came from, the Native Americans were people who lived off of the land and the Whites were the more priveledged when it came to technology and progression. The Native Americans, or the red skinned people were sent to the west, and the Whites, or yellow skinned people, were placed on the east. The explanation of how the cultures eventually will have to merge together and call upon one another is explained through this short story. I just think that it is really cool that each culture can develop their own ideas of how they came about and tell a story so different, yet so similar based on their personal beliefs.