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Ethan's Indianness
Ethan's Indianness
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based on Buscombe, Edward. The Searchers (BFI Film Classics) . Bloomsbury Publishing.
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1
Just like Ethan, Natty Bumppo is so very close to the Indians that he
fights against the imperius curse that makes him act like them
always defends them
insists on his difference
knows them so well that he has come to love them
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1. Tick the right answers – Ethan is very familiar with Indian ways for a white man who is so hostile to Indians
He was the first to understand that the Comanche were on a murder raid
He knows Indian traditions when he shoots in the dead Indian’s eye
He was the once to suggest that driving off the cattle was just a feint
He was the one who said he had married a “buck” and had left her
3
Why according to you?
Because the ‘scalping’ tradition was always attributed to Indians then.
Because it shows that Ethan is only driven by hatred just like the Indians
It is an act of rare violence & mirrors Ethan’s shooting in the man’s eyes
Because Ethan wanted to give it to Debbie as a peace offering
4
In his
Leatherstocking Tales
, James Fenimore Cooper tells about
a man Native Americans called "Deerslayer" or "Hawkeye".
Natty Bumppo, a man of the woods, who has much in common with the Indians
a frontiersman known to settlers as "Leatherstocking", "The Pathfinder"
A man who is driven by his hatred of Indians and only seeks revenge
5
Bumppo refers to himself as ‘a man without a cross’; his blood-line is not crossed with that of the Indians.
True
False
6
What are Scar and Ethan according to Edward Buscombe?
They were close friends but Ethan betrayed Scar & Indians never forgive
They are relatives. Ethan hates half-breeds because he is one himself
They are mirror images, they are pretty much alike in many ways
They are brothers in arms and will fight alongside at The Little Big Horn
7
An ‘injun’ is / was
Another word for Indians but less derogatory than “buck”
A casual American or Canadian corruption of the term "Indian".
A New Orleans’ dish
A native that originated from the Mississippi River area
8
Tick the correct answers - In
Regeneration through Violence
, Richard Slotkin
He is at home in the wilderness
This type of hero is based initially on a large fictionalized Daniel Boone
Such a hero knows Indians intimately, has even lived among them
traces the evolution of a particular type of American hero in the 19th
9
In the end, Ethan scalps Scar and this is the final confirmation that he has much of the Indian in him.
True
False
10
How like the Indians such a hero is?
He has tamed the wilderness for his own profit
He has the Indian virtues of hardiness and bravery
He has much of the wild in him
He is a skilled hunter
11
However, one can’t help but notice that Ethan is not very familiar with Indian ways
False
True
12
What does the medal Scar is now wearing suggest?
That Ethan has had a lot of nice relationships with Indians
That Ethan fought on the side of the Austrian emperor Maximilian for Mexico
That Ethan is really fond of jewels
That Ethan was given a medal by the American government
13
What other parallel does Edward Buscombe make between Ethan and Scar?
Ethan has many scars
Scar’s band is called the ‘Nawyecka’; the ones who ‘go about’ like Ethan
Ethan means ‘scar’ in Native tongue
‘Nawyecka’means that they are just as nomadic as Ethan is – They all wander
14
Just like Ethan whose first reaction when he sees Marty 8 years after finding him
is to remark again and again that Marty is no kin to him
is to hold him very tight into his arms
is to insist on racial difference:Marty could be mistaken for a half-breed
is to run away from him
15
Which of the following quotes come from Ethan?
‘Injun’ll chase till he thinks he’s chased it enough, then he quits …’
‘Comanch comes along, gets a horse up, rides him [...] then eats him’
‘Ain’t got no eyes he can’t enter the spirit land, has to wander forever ’
‘… he is no more than an Injun with dead eyes”
16
The Daniel Boone hero-like figure was developed by another famous writer
The American writer James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)
The American novelist Alan Le May (1899-1964)
The American writer Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957)
The English 20th century writer D.H.Lawrence (1885-1930)
17
2. Tick the right answers – Ethan is very familiar with Indian ways for a white man who is so hostile to Indians
He has Indian bead-work on this fringed rifle cover
He is the expert on Indians and explains how they react or do things
He is the one who chants Indian rhythms all the time during his journey
He recognizes the chief’s death song before the attack on the river.
18
Who was Daniel Boone? Tick the right answers
He founded Boonesborough, 1 of the 1st settlements west the Appalachians
He blazed the Wilderness Road (1775) despite the Indians
He was a 18th/19th pioneer & frontiersman who fought against Indians
He became famous for his exploration & settlement of what is now Kentucky
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Richard Slotkin (RS) is a
Friend of Ethan’s
University professor: studied The Searchers; Regeneration through Violence
Cultural critic and historian
Wandering‘Nawyecka’
