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directed to Native American, not the middle Asian Indian people. They live along in groups spread all over the vast land in America. There are a lot numbers of
tribes where these people belong to. The ones involved in the story are namely: the Shawnee, the Apache, the Dakota Sioux and the Skidi Pawnee.
Unger 1982 in his book The United States: the Question of Our Past describes that the Indians are the tribes that live directly with the nature; they are
skillful in cultivating lands and natures p. 3. Different from the European who consider nature as the obstacles to be overcome, the Indians rely and preserve the
nature as they believe that it will yield benefits and living for them for all the moment.
Although the Indians had made a considerable progress in arts and cultures and even they had once lived for many-many centuries in the finest land in the
world, they were far from advance civilization system compared to the European Chitwood and Owlsey, 1955, pp. 7-8. This fact arouses the whites to eagerly
take selfish benefits from the Indians.
1.5.3 The Whites
In general, the term of “The Whites” refers to European people who had travelled around the world in order to find The New World. They came from
Spain, Portugal, France, the Great Britain, the Netherlands, Italy and the various German states with various motives of goals. Some of them were adventurers,
fortune seekers who were also determined to find gold and spices and the others were fervent Christians who devoted in religion’s expansion Tindall and Shi,
1984, pp. 2-5. The tendency of the Whites in this story refers to the Spaniard who
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came under the flag after Christopher Columbus discovered the New World. The the finding of the New World Columbus made had brought new visions and
motives for other Europeans to come and gain more benefits and better living. It was the European people who triggered the conflict against the Indians
as they saw their kindness and that they are easy to manipulate. They saw that the Indians were weak and they thought that they might make more advantages of the
Indians by enslaving them. Besides, they saw wild living uncivilized and strange behavior, such as cannibals and sacrifices. Some tribes of the Indians even gave
human-sacrifice in order to worship ancient gods and they believed that they would gain prosperity by pleasing gods’ heart Graff and Krout, 1960, pp. 10-16.
Those were the reasons why the Whites invaded the Indians.
1.5.4 The Braves
The term of the braves were commonly used by non Indian people to indicate the Indian men. The term might vary from one tribe to another. The term
of brave was a construct of early American traders who referred to Native American men who were well-trained and prepared to defend their homeland and
families Devine, 1998. The term of brave also referred to a mystic guardian of the land who existed in harmony with America’s wilderness past. The braves
symbolized an eagle, buffalo or wolf as the symbols of the mighty guardians rather than human being Barnes, 2011.. Therefore, the symbolical of brave also
represented that the Native American were natural; using many symbolisms from the nature as their life’s depiction.
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1.5.5 Perception
