Assertion Analysis #6

       John Lame Deer was suggesting about the modernization of America by European settlers, and wants the others (Natives) to be like them-be civilized. More specifically, he suggests that before the whites came, they were uncivilized, and somehow, the Natives managed to maintain a stable tribe without the necessaries brought in by the Whites.

       This quote: "Before our white brothers arrived to make us civilized men, we didn't have any kind of prison. Because of this, we had no delinquents" shows one of things that Whites have that Natives don't have, and so it seems unnecessary for them as they maintain a tribe on their own.

       This assertion is supported by his use of anaphora. There, he used the word "we" as to reference the Natives in his group, who also experienced it, and didn't have the necessary things that the Whites only have in their hands. His use of anaphora will the make the reader see that America is already good without the stuff from the Whites.