i Heard The Owl Call My Name And the Black Robe: The Indians :: essays research papers

"I Heard The Owl Call My Name" and "The benighted Robe" The Indians     Although the Indians in I Heard The Owl Call My Name, and in The BlackRobe are primitive person in the technological sense, they are neither simple oremotional people.     The Indians in both texts could be classed as primitive people - if wetake primitive to mean technologically under induceed. The level of technologypossessed by the white man is far superior to that of the Indians, yet theIndians in The Black Robe are happy to accept and use muskets, and in I HeardThe Owl Call My Name they are familiar with motors, wash drawing machines and modernbuilding techniques brought by white man.     The Indians display their level of ignorance in regard to moderntechnology in The Black Robe, when the enemy tribe believed that muskets could unless be fired once and once fired, they are useless. The Indians had littleknowledge of modern mater ials or tools.     When comparing the Indians in The Black Robe to the Indians in I HeardThe Owl Call My Name, we must take into account that The Black Robe was set twohundred and twenty years earlier than I Heard The Owl Call My Name, and whitemans influence on the Indians in I Heard The Owl Call My Name was much greater.Technology did non play an important role in the Indians way of life.Traditionally, the Indians lived off the land taking only what they needed, andtheir hunting and building methods had served them well for centuries, thereforetheir need to develop new technology would not have been great.     The Indians are not simple or barbaric people. Their complex beliefsystem and folklore related strongly to the purlieu and gave reasons for the