Assertion Analysis #7: Cheif Joseph

The native americans culture is very uplifting. Native american culture is brought down generations by languages and stories they have to be passed down. Native americans culture is them always sticking together and having traditions, languages, and ceremonies these are what makes the native culture who they are. A chief named Joseph is from a band or tribe named Wal-lam-wat-kain. He wrote a quote about the struggle of being in the tribe and the type of things that he has done and sacrificed for that tribe. Chief Joseph says that he’s tired of his people getting killed and he’s just sick and tired of fighting and he wants it to end. His children from the tribe are running away and getting lost without any blankets, food or shelter. Because he is the leader of the tribe or band it’s his duty to care for his kids and look for them because none of them should be left behind. Natives culture doesn’t involve spreading out and leaving each other behind they’re a community. He’s tired of people dying and he wants it to all stop and he just can’t take it anymore so he eventually gives up and fights no more. Some devices that he used are seriousness, anaphoras, and he’s constantly making an anologies in this quote. He’s not being satiric because people are dying and that’s not something to joke about. His people are starving and cold and he won’t go down without a fight but eventually he became sick and tired of fighting for them all the time, he gets tired of looking for them and making sure they’re okay but he’s tired so he says “hear me, my Chief’s! I am tired; my heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever.“ Key word foever that means he is done.