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This 3 page paper provides an overview of views of Milton Bennett and Milton Gordon regarding assimilation in Native American literature. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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centuries, views of Native Americans have reflected the conflicts that existed based on cultural and social differences and the efforts to create an assimilated Native civic culture. Theorists including
Milton Bennett (creator of the Bennett Scale) and Milton Gordon have viewed ethnic and racial divisions and sought understanding of the factors that impact views of Native culture. Native
American authors often reflect upon the factors that separate Native culture from the dominant culture. Milton Gordon maintained that the separation was defined by the process of assimilation, by
which the dominant culture expects assimilation and applies racial prejudice and discrimination to groups that do not obtain civic assimilation (Marger, 2003). Similarly, Milton Bennett created a framework for
understanding cultural differences, but identified the power of ethnocentric perspectives as they determined both the response of the dominant culture to Native communities and the response of Native Americans to
the pressure to assimilate into the dominant culture. Momaday, in The Way to Rainy Mountain, demonstrated the separation of the Native and dominant perspectives that influenced both identity and
the maintaining of Native lore. It was Momadays contention that the non-native perspective on the Native was developed over centuries of interactions and diminished the power of the Native
culture as a living culture by placing the Native American in a kind of cultural "museum." Momaday wrote: "...[the Native American] is presented as a museum piece.
He is not flesh and blood so much as he is ink on paper, pain of canvas, light on film, the lifeless sum of his own artifacts." Momaday suggested,
then, that there was a distinct need to view the Native American as a part of a living culture, one that is not reflective of the past, but instead one
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