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May 21, 2008
white waggons
I saw the white waggons […] interstate (4.XXXIV.i).
The wagon train was the only option for white American pilgrims hoping to settle on the Great Plains in the mid-1800s. The development of railroads as a faster, safer mode of transport accelerated westward expansion (cf. Union Pacific, 4.XXXIV.ii) and threatened the Native American way of life (Bib:22). Walcott’s reference to the Interstate Highway System currently used in the USA perhaps emphasises the fact that there can be no return to a traditional, nomadic Native American way of life on America’s Great Plains.
Amanda Hopkins
21 May 2008 14:52
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epic to epigram
a lost love narrowed from epic to epigram (4.XXXIV.i).
Perhaps a reference to the Great Plains and the Native Americans who populated them. The mid-nineteenth century acceleration of American expansion has effectively destroyed the epic landscape and Native American way of life – all that is left is a verse on a tombstone. Ironically, an epigram is typically witty, and is therefore an unsuitable legacy of the genocide of the Native American race.
Amanda Hopkins
21 May 2008 14:16
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contracts treaties indians
Our contracts […] like treaties with the Indians (4.XXXIV.i).
During the nineteenth century, the US government’s desire for territorial expansion resulted in treaties that thinly veiled the government’s desire to subjugate the Native American tribes occupying the American Plains. The treaties were often intentionally broken, betraying the tribes and often allowing the US government to claim Native American land with little resistance (Bib:21).
Amanda Hopkins
21 May 2008 14:10
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Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny [… ] American dream (4.XXXIV.i).
Manifest Destiny is the ideology, popularised by American politicians and press in the mid-nineteenth century, that inspired white Americans to travel east to the unsettled Plains of America, in the name of territorial expansion, prosperity and a better quality of life. The ‘American dream’ – the dream white Americans possessed of fulfilling their Manifest Destiny – was nothing less than a nightmare for the Native Americans living nomadically on the Great Plains that had been previously ignored by the United States. White settlement on the Plains threatened traditional Native American ways of hunting and living and led to the subjugation and marginalisation of their race (Bib:18; Bib:19). Thus Walcott’s reference to Manifest Destiny can only be seen as condemnatory: this desire to expand the American continent draws parallels to Britain’s imperial and colonial ambitions that denied the island of St. Lucia its independence for centuries.
Amanda Hopkins
21 May 2008 13:12
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July 09, 2007
Choctaw
Choctaw (7.LXIII.i).
A Muskogean North American Indian people, originally living in Mississippi and Alabama (Bib:OED). Like the Cherokee and Sioux, the Choctaw tribe was evicted from their homeland by the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
Amanda Hopkins
09 Jul 2007 15:57
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Cherokee
Cherokee (7.LXIII.i).
A member of an Iroquoian North American Indian people, formerly inhabiting much of the southern USA (Bib:OED). The Cherokees were evicted from their homeland by the Indian Removal Act of 1830, a resettlement known as the Trail of Tears, to which Walcott refers in 4.XXV.i. Cf. Sioux (3.XXXI.iii) and Choctaw (7.LXIII.i).
Amanda Hopkins
09 Jul 2007 15:55
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