71. What is not included in the Chanukah
Festival?
A. Ceramic painting.
B. Fun foods.
C. Computer adventures.
D. Fashion show.
E
Never forget where you como from
Many of us remember
the touching television advertisemont where the actor
Iron Eyes Cody sheds a
tear over litter. Such Native images are
often used to convey the idea of saving mother earth. People who
accept this image fmd
it difficult to bring together what they have seen of some reservations- shabby
homes, broken cars, underfed dogs, weeds in
winds, and coal strip mines. Those who most romanticize
American Indians are the quickest to be
disappointed and discover that things axe not as good as they have
once believed. However, Indians'
relationship with the land is much more complicated (复杂的) than
those two black and white images which
appeared in the telivision.
Historically, tribal (部落的) people around the globe have
had close ties with the earth. Lakota
historian Vine Deloria,
Jr., tells the story of the Ponca people who were taken from their range ver a
century ago and transported against their
will to Oklahoma.
Otherwise healthy, many Ponca wasted and
died from no other clear cause than
separation from their home. As Cheryl Crazy Bull says in this isst
"The land is our relative. Without
land, tribal people lose their identity- the land along with langoat
spiritual beliefs, and social systems
distinguishes tribal people from others."
To many people in the United States,
the Indian reservation is an embarrassment. It represents
American version of racial seperation--a prison without walls where the government
confined Indians
keep them apart fi'om
other Americans. To Indian people the reservation is homo, regardless of wha
looks like. They have spiritual, emotional,
and family ties. Many of their relatives still live there or
buried there, and their creation stories
are centered there.
Americans tend to pull
up roots and separate from their birthplace, moving from city to city m
times. Many of us non-Indians have never
visited the places where our ancestors are buried or the hot
where our parents were bom.
Western nations use Earth in the same way, as if we can go to anol
planet when the air and water becomo too dirty. On the other hand, tribes are very
familiar with
concept of limited resources. They cannot
get another reservation if theirs becomes too polluted.