Assertion Analysis #6: John Lame Deer

Culture is a very important thing for Native Americans because of their language and it is what keeps them united. Language is what also makes them happy and it's what creates new generations. John Lame Deer is a Lakota holy man, a memeber of the Heyoka society and was the grandson of the head man. He acknowledges that natives were too uncivilized. Lame Deer says that we weren't civilized until the white people came to put some sense in us like prisons. They didn't have any laws, locks,keys there was no thieves and when someone was in need they would provide for them but now that the white came they became civilized. They became civilized because now humans are being judged by their wealth, Now they have delinquents,and now they cheat each other. Deer uses satiric terms throughout the paragraph, for example he says "We had no written laws laid down, no lawyers, no politicians, therefore we were not able to cheat and swindle one another." He says that sarcasticly because he really means that with out all of the laws, prisions and things the white people brought they were equal and they didn't judge each other. But now that they're now "civilized" they have been torn apart.