I Will Fight No More Forever

I Will Fight No More Forever by Chief Justice, is a very real but sad story to hear.  It is about America exploring the west because they felt God had given them the land to settle, and taking over the Native American's land.  This caused many arguments and eventually battles between the two until finally the Natives gave up.  At the time, the surrender from the Native Americans was a great thing and worth celebrating, but after a while we realized that it was not fair and it was the Indian's land first so we needed to cooperate with them and share it.  Before all of the good happens though, they had to go through some very harsh times.  The Natives suffered from extreme racism against them, practically enslavement to some, and many died in the cold from fighting for their freedom or while fighting.

Thoreau was huge on nature and loved everything about it.  Since the Indians were too, I feel that he would have sided with them.  Looking back now, I think that in the moment America thought it was doing the right thing taking the Native's land, but now know that it was wrong and we needed to come to an agreement and share part of the land.  Thoreau was also a big believer in solving issues and fixing problems.  Thoreau and Chief Justice both use their writings to explain different stories and how the issues were resolved.  Edgar Masters who wrote Spoon River Anthology was also a big believer in solving issues and explaining things through the writing.  All three men would have probably been for the Natives and felt that they should have been treated fairly as would many people when looking back on the problem now including many Americans.  I know that I am happy to have Natives in America because I have a good friend who is one and don't mind having to share our land with them one bit.  It says in Constitution that "All men are created equal" and if this statement is true (which it is) then we should have no problems letting Native Americans stay here.




Chief Joseph. "I Will Fight No More Forever." Comp. Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, Ph.D. and Douglas Fisher, Ph.D. Glencoe Literature. American Literature ed. Columbus: McGraw-Hill Companies, 2009. 531-533. Print.




Howells, William Dean. "My Mark Twain." In My Mark Twain; Reminiscences and Criticisms. New York: Harper, 1910. Quoted as "On the Life of Mark Twain" in Bloom, Harold, ed. Mark Twain, Classic Critical Views. New York: Chelsea House, 2009. Bloom's Literary Reference Online. Facts On File, Inc. Accessed 7 March 2012.