Entering A White World

In my opinion the extreme cultural differences would be a difficult barrier to overcome for the natives leaving home to enter the modern English society.

As we see in the novel "I heard the Owl Call my Name" by Margaret Craven, a native leaving his village must ask themselves: if there family will accept them if they leave the village?, will my people survive?, will I survive if I don't merge with the majority?, will I be accepted? Native peoples have had to make a difficult decision that would affect the rest of their lives that involves both their hearts and their minds.

On a native reserve life is different in most aspects of everyday life compared to "our world". A native trying to adapt into our communities would have to start life all over. The way which the community is ran such as laws, morals, personal boundaries, and mainly customs differ from that of a native community. A native child raised in a reserve would obviously be raised on native morals and traditions. The child would learn to greatly respect nature and value the natural balance in the world far greater than a child raised in a community consisting of whites. When the native child grew up and left the reserve they would most likely be disgusted with the way that we treat the world and take Mother Nature for granted.

A native person moving to live in a white community would be as drastic as someone moving from a small town into the "Big Apple". They would have to learn about technologies that are new to them, such as a small town farmer might not know how to use the subway system; native boys as in the novel "I heard an Owl Call My Name" when leaving the village to school had to be explained how to use a shower. They would have to get into a completely different schedule. Learn the customs. The small town farmer is used to being able to do "U" turns in town if he wishes; he would have