Lost Sparrow is a documentary film about the story of four Crow Indian children who were taken away from their parents in the 1970s, a few years before the Indian Child Welfare Act was enabled. The parents of these four child clearly had several personal issues as well as marital issues - drinking, smoking, and domestic violence. Upon investigation and research, the state of Montana decided that enough was enough and removed the children from the home and placed them in a receiving home. The children ended up with a caucasian family of six other children - The Billings. A few years after the adoption, the family moved to Upstate New York in a mansion where the children could thrive and be happy. However, that was not exactly the case. .
The most powerful part of the film (for me) was that it was written, directed and narrated by Christopher Billing who happened to be one of the biological children of Diane and Stuart Billing. In the start of the film, he discusses how the death of Tyler and Bobby (two of the four children who had been adopted) haunted him. During the film, he discovered hard truths about his family which included sexual abuse of his sister, marital infidelity, the truth about his brothers death and even the power of healing. I believe that the film also discusses many social problems (inter-racial adoption, substance abuse, as well as short and long term effects of child maltreatment) in a very raw and heart breaking way. .
When the film began, my first impressions were that it would be about two boys and their issues with being adopted by a white family. I thought that maybe it would discuss inter - racial adoption and how it made them feel different. I thought that maybe the boys ran away in an attempt to find their birth family and in the process got themselves killed. I soon learned that this film was much more and had a deeper meaning that what I had originally planned.
Lowie's The Crow Indians (1956). ... At all levels, chiefs lost their power if they stopped living up to Crow ideals. ... (or Kite) came from the false impression of French explorers and that the tribe was actually named for the sparrow hawk. ... Non-Indians brought European disease that decimated the Crow population. ... Hence, many traders called Crowsthe long-haired Indians.? ...
The House Sparrow 2. ... The Hooded Crow 4. ... The House Sparrow The House Sparrows immigrated to our country from Africa and Asia long time ago. ... During cold nights the House Sparrows gather together in trees and bushes. ... The Hooded Crow The Hooded Crow belongs to species called crow-like. ...
"Civilize Them with a Stick" Times were very rough for the Native American Indians during the early 1900's. ... She explains how religion was forced down her throat in an attempt to socialize Indians into an Anglo way of life. ... Crow Dog stated that presently the school is run by the B.I.A. (Bureau of Indian Affairs). ... Crow Dog was very rebellious as a child. ...
Lakota Woman By: josh The book "Lakota Woman," is an autobiography that depicts Mary Crow Dog and Indians" Lives. ... Just like other Indian kids on reservation, Crow Dog's childhood was poor in everyway; didn't have enough food, clothes, education, and parents" love. She was kidnapped to boarding school where Indian children are imprisoned: only allowed to go home one week every year. Because Indians have very strong family tide, such as tiyospaye, being taken away from family was very hard for Indian Children. ... I, as a minority myself, hope that Indians and many people fig...
His first raid on the Crow was his first actual conflict. ... Another account talks about a raid of the Crow Indians. "In an attack upon a band of Crow Indians, one of the enemy took his stand, after the rest had fled in a deep ditch from which it seemed impossible to dislodge him. ... He also made it a point to not let any of the women and children be killed in wars. ... He was in the village protecting the women and children. ...
Ted Hughes' "Crow's Theology" is written as an internal dialogue going on in the mind of a crow. The poem begins with what seems to be the crow's awakening in realizing his own existence. ... The crow seems to be representative of the average observer, viewing his/her life and taking note of what is seen. The poem begins with the crow grappling with the idea of God through the personification of individual consciousness, stating "Crow realized God loved him- otherwise, he would have dropped dead" (1-2). ... Taking solace in the proof of his existence, the ...
They viewed Indians as children, savage-uncivilized people in need of their protection and salvation (Carroll and Noble: 30). ... Indians also lost their original lands as a result of direct and indirect contact with the Europeans. ... Under this termination policy Indian lost their right to tax exemption that was granted to them in treaties. ... A fifth form, educational genocide, where Indian children were forced to go to boarding schools to learn whites' morals and values. The children were severely punished if they did not speak English or follow the strict rules. ...
This paper will give a review of the book titled The Strange Career of Jim Crow. ... He is most known for The Strange Career of Jim Crow which was published in 1955. ... Going against the belief that the Jim Crow laws was solely a result of southern white racism, in The Strange Career of Jim Crow, the author argues how there were many components involved in not only the emergence of the Jim Crow laws but also the acceptance of them. ... Everything was now in place for the Jim Crow Laws and segregation to take lift. ... Board of Education, for helping put an end to the Jim Crow Laws. ...
If Indians had become a "domestic" matter, it was up to the Canadian legal system to determine whether Indians had rights. ... Indians were "uncivilized" and "savages." The treaty had been made with a "handful of Indians." ... If Canadian law had given Indians rights, Indians had rights. ... Technically the Nishga lost, but the court divided equally on the question whether the Nishga had aboriginal title to their traditional territories. ...
