1. This article “Occupy Wounded Knee: A 71 Day Siege and a Forgotten Civil Rights Movement” is a eulogy because they remember the ones that died during the Oglala Lakota activists members that seized a town with a lot of history for civil rights. The other genre that is at work is history because it is sharing a specific part of history for the Native American people that is very important. Another example of this is the new history of how that town is doing now it states on page 349 ” Today, the Pine Ridge reservation is the largest community in what may be the poorest country in the entire united states (Per capita income in 2010 was lower in Shannon Country, South Dakota, where Pine Ridge is located, than in any other U.S. country)”. This shows how what happened in the past can affect the town in an negative or positive way.
2. Chertoff’s tittle supports and relates to civil disturbances because it talks directly about a movement that the Native Americans were apart of. It even states in the text “according to the U.S. Marshals Service, which besieged the town along with FBI and National Guard- the longest lasting “civil disorder” in 200 years of U.S. History” This helps give example to her title and supports what Chertoff’s article was all about.
3. This article is about cultural change, tradition, or resistance because of the fact that this article is all about Native activists that are resisting a change from the U,S. and causing for issues in the town of Wounded Knee this is all three of them because they are fighting for their culture and what they believe in. Them fighting shows their resistance to change for their lifestyle. “The oglala living on the reservation faced racism beyond its boundaries and a poorly managed tribal government within them” Although they needed the change to help them this was what their lifestyle had become and this was now their social normalcy.
4. The most graphic part from the article was on page 349 when it said”To many observers, the standoff resembled the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890 itself—- when a U.S. cavalry detachment slaughtered a group of Lakota warriors who refused to disarm”. This supports her article because it is about how this got forgotten because it is similar to the Wounded Knee Massacre and many people forget about it.
5.Chertoff collapses the door between war and civil disorder by comparing the two and what it did to both cities. How it affected all of those involved socially and culturally. It put a divide up that should not be a divide for both. Also it is people fighting for what they believe is right and how they believe they should be treated. Chertoff shows great example of that throughout the article and with how descriptive her wording is. She gives a great image to the reader to what might have been happening at that time and what people may have been thinking.
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