Chapter 2

After reading the chapater2, I had a few questions with the paragraphs that I did not understand. However, it seems that class discussion might help me to answer my questions.

Basically chapter 2 is talking about the Seminoles and it also discuss about the panthers. Chapter two is portrayed Native Americans' sorrow and agony from losing their territory and challenges that they had to face. Native Americans' had to face face wars and they also had to move their territory. The author seems to claim that they lost their land and everything.

At the end the author depicted Whites as styrofoam cup, " The Sytrofoam cup is the white man's way. They have no rules or regulations in tehir way of life. They way they do but in reality, they do not." (All our relations, 44) She seems to claiming that their nature and everything is messed up and polluted because of intervention of Whites. Besides, she also claims that the destruction and poisoned environment is from whites and at the end of the chapter two she says, ' the Independent traditional seminoles "continue to teach us about how to be better citizents.' Perhaps, in the end, to be better humans." (All our relations, 45)

Overall, chapter two seems to portrayed Seminoles and Native Americans sorrow and agony from the experiences and challenges that they had to face from the intruders. The author is basically claming that the destruction of the envrionment and the pollution is all caused by the intervention of Whites.