Ethos Of Native Americans Rhetorical Analysis

Native Americans were the first people to have arrived in America, and to have built an establishment in America. Many people have a stereotype on how they lived and still live currently, and many Native Americans don’t consent to that at all. The way many people believe that the Native Americans lived a nomadic type of lifestyle, such as hunting large animals for food, using animal parts to create clothing, and many other actions. This article that the author has wrote is very convincing on how a Native American feels about how people are stereotyping him and his type of people. It gives a perspective from a Native American’s point of view of what they deal with on a daily basis, and throughout their entire life. The main reason that is convincing …show more content…
Ethos is used in a very ideal way because, it tells how a Native American feels about how they are being stereotyped. This makes the author credible because she is using her real life examples to show first hand how people being are being mislead into the culture of Native Americans. This makes the article extremely convincing because the source of information, is coming from the best source possible, which the author herself. The source is the Native American author who feels down emotionally because of the stereotyping of Native Americans. There is no better source than this, and this source can give real life examples of situations that have occurred to them. Also, this source cannot be deemed uncredible, because there is no other source to go to that will tell you that the words of the Native American author are incorrect. Ethos deals with the credibility of an author, and I think the authors use this the best out of the three ideas, due to the fact of that the source that the authors used was the best source that could be used for this type of …show more content…
The authors attempts to use the emotions of the Native Americans to appeal to the readers emotions, which I believe is extremely worthy and convincing argument to include in the article. The argument used in the article is a Native American who was attending a school in California, and the school mascot was a Native American warrior, who had long hair, dark-skinned, and very muscular. The native american student felt very offended by the mascot. The article expresses how unsafe the student felt at his school knowing that the school mascot was based on a stereotype. The school also had parades where two students would dress as “warriors” one being a male and the other being a princess and they would perform a “cultural” dance routine. After the dance routine, the band would follow up by playing a song that was featured in a old western movie, that was played when an Indian was approaching a village of settlers which meant trouble. She felt very offended by the school’s actions, and many students who expressed their school spirit, confronted her and asked her where her school spirit was, and that they were honoring her people. She not only felt down emotionally but she also felt unsafe during the situation. She also mentioned that the students would buy face paint, paper wigs, and feathers to dress up as “Native Americans.” She expresses that how she couldn’t figure out how face paint