Assertion Analysis #8: Wooden Leg

Wooden leg was from a tribe called Northern Cheyenne and he was a warrior. He was not only called wooden leg others called him Eats from his hand. He's known from fighting at the Battle of Little Bighorn and also from walking long distances. He talks about how caring the Native Americans are towards the earth and nature. They like to move around and through nature not in an orderly fashion way. "It may be cut off, but it should not be uprooted." It's like saying you can take the girl out of the hood but you can't take the hood out of the girl, there is always going to be hood in her. Which in his words is that the trees and grass he refers to having spirits can be cut but you'll still have your roots but if you don't have anymore roots and you get cut there's no coming back from that you cannot grow anymore. Some devices that are being used are imagery and metaphors. He uses imagery by saying "the trees and grass have spirits." Which causes us to imagine grass and trees literally having spirits. By saying Native culture may or may not go on in the future is how he uses the metaphoric device.