6/11/2023 0 Comments There there tommy![]() ![]() ![]() Second, it is a motif that shows up every time violence occurs. First, it dictates tribal identity in the eyes of the white supremacist state, which dictated Indian rights according to how much Indian blood each person had. ![]() Blood (Motif)īlood is important in There There for a number of reasons. He also shows how the Indian head makes appearances in visual culture: in a test pattern on 20th-century American television, in commercials, as logos, as mascots, in textbooks, on jerseys, and on flags. Orange traces this motif throughout American history, beginning with its roots in colonial violence: the beheading of Native Americans and the preservation of their heads as war trophies was a recurrent practice throughout the American colonial frontier. This motif is the central one in the Prologue of There There, a section that also functions as a standalone critical essay. ![]()
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