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Essay on The Battle of Wounded Knee and the Native Americans
Native Americans have gained a significant amount of political clout in view of the fact that the first Europeans settled in the country. The federal government over time has ceded more powers aimed at increasing the self-determination of these tribes however state governments have become uneasy with these developments and their relation with Native Americans continue to be frequently strained. On the other hand, state leaders are learning that it is more mutually beneficial and productive to work with, and not against, the tribes.
For many Americans, the phrase, "the cavalry has arrived," has come to be a humorous and informal euphemism for the arrival of help or rescue; in popular usage, the phrase most probably creates a sense of relief in the listener. For Indian tribes, in contrast, the arrival of the cavalry has hardly ever been cause for relief or celebration and it often has quite the opposite connotation in Indian country. To members of many Indian tribes, the word "cavalry" brings to mind oppression, rapaciousness, murder, and even genocide.
The unenthusiastic admission that we New Yorkers miss the towers, that we came to love them in spite of themselves, has become a cliché in post-9/11 journalism. Their destruction coincided with a moment when Modernism--after years of derision in academic and architectural circles--seemed again all the rage, though in this case an appreciation for clean, Modernist design was neatly severed from the social progressivism that inspired many of its adherents almost a century ago. (Weston, Mary Ann) In the fall of 2001, Modernism was again on the scene as a "style," not as a "movement," and the coffee-table books and magazines lavishly illustrated with images of Modernist icons carried only the slightest reference to the confident hope that many architects and planners had once held for satisfying popular demands for sufficient housing and sanitary living conditions......
