Assertion analysis #4: Lame Deer

          Native Americans are always portrayed as uncivilized savages, specially before the colonists got here. We're they really savages? They didn't have jails, delinquents, dishonesty. According to lame deer, the native Americans were perfectly fine before the colonists got here and he uses verbal irony, satire and sarcasm to show his audience his point.
          Throughout the text lame deer tells the audience about the state in which native Americans were in before the colonists came. He says the native Americans didn't have most of the things that are considered "bad" in a society", such as jails, criminals and property. Although He doesn't say this directly but instead chooses to say it ironically. At the very beggining and at the end of the text it is obvious that he doesn't mean what he is saying about native Americans when he calls them "uncivilized".
          Lame Deer is being ironic and sarcastic throughout the whole text. He calls native Americans "uncivilized" because they don't have the bad parts of a society. He calls white people his "brothers" despite the dact they decimated one third of the native American population. What really shows that he is being sarcastic is the first sentence of his conclusion, where he says, "we were in really bas shape before the white men arrived". He says his people were doing badly despite the fact he has been telling the audience what makes native American society better, which proves he is being satirical.
          Lame deer isnt trying to put white society down. He isn't trying to make native American society seem perfect either. He is using sarcasm and irony to show the audience how blind we are being for saying native Americans are "uncivilized" which is why the title of the text is "lame deer: seeker of visions". He is telling the audience to seek to see the truth, instead of just believe what we are told.