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This 6 page paper discusses the book "Last Standing Woman" by Winona LaDuke. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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impossible to classify the book. This paper discusses the book, its thesis, whether the author accomplished her purpose; it reviews the book. Authors Thesis Its really difficult to decide what
LaDukes thesis might be, because the book is so lyrical, and wanders through so many narratives. However, heres what she says (or rather, what Last Standing Woman, the narrator, says):
"I wrote this because I am called to write. I have done the best I could have and have tried to tell some of our story from my mothers word
and from the words of my relatives" (LaDuke, 1997, p. 299). She goes on to say that there is much to learn from the past that will impact the future,
and that for all the pain she and her people have endured, there has also been an equal amount of joy (LaDuke, 1997). "That is how everything works. There is
always a struggle to maintain the balance" (LaDuke, 1997, p. 299). We can condense these thoughts into an arguable thesis; LaDuke is writing to tell the story of the Ojibwe
on the White Earth Reservation, what their life is like, what their struggles have been, what they have learned, and how they will apply that to the future. Her intended
audience must surely be both her own people and whites. The former need to learn the lessons of the past and the whites, as always, need to understand that they
are not gods, merely another group of people sharing the world with everyone else. LaDuke, like most Indians, writes with a justifiable undercurrent of anger: anger at centuries of
mistreatment, of treaties broken, lands stolen, and people slaughtered. But the anger is not prominent here. What comes through is the beauty of the language and the crystal clear portraits
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