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The family in Roger Jack’s narrative, “An Indian Story”, perfectly fits Aulette’s description of Native American families. In “The Indian Story” after the narrator’s mother passes away he chooses to live with his aunt rather than his father. This ties in to Aulette’s explanation on families within Native American societies. She points out how Native American families commonly rely on and find the importance in their extended families, along with “non-kin”, family-friends. She later remarks that relying on these measures can be seen as informal in their culture, but an exception like the naming rituals make these relationships formal and more conventional. Naming rituals were also mentioned in “The Indian Story”, which show the characteristics Aulette mentions of becoming “formal” rather than “informal” living with his aunt. Even though Aulette says that sharing is “informal” in the Indian culture, “The Indian Story” didn’t give me that impression.
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(on a sidenote, i freaking hate blogspot now as this is my 3rd time typing this because it refused to take my first 2 submissions...)
ReplyDeleteThe family depicted in Roger Jack's narrative is far from the one described in Aulette's middle-class families. Jack's family shows little resemblance to the middle-class family described as the family in the narrative does not really migrate globally, or rely on people outside of the family itself. However, Aulette describes more accurately of what Jack's family is like on page 72 when discussing extended networks of families. As the main character of the narrative relies upon his aunt, the family itself functions as a network. As Aulette depicts the Flats, the native american family functions in the sense that family members can rely upon extended family. Although the family seems dysfunctional at first glance, the family actually continues to work with a system of interdependence--family can rely on each other without being exclusive to the nuclear family. Ultimately, I believe Jack's family does not function as a middle-class family described by Aulette because the Native American is more based upon tradition as opposed to the traditional american family which is not only new, but more based upon rules set by the nuclear family.
Roger Jack's family shares many similarities with the families in Aulette's study of American families. First off Roger's aunt steps in to care for him after his mother passes. this trait is also shared with the mexican american families Roger Jack's aunt was some what like a madrina in the way she looked for Jack. The way the native american's live in a tight community reminded me or how aulette wrote about the african american families in the flats.
ReplyDeleteRoger Jack's narrative fits aulette's description as in that child sharing is also common in the native American community, as that is what happened in Roger Jack's narrative. Similar that it is to the African American community, child sharing in the native American community is informal as for in the African community it is a formal ritual.
ReplyDeleteRoger Jacks's narrative does fit Aulette's brief description of Native Americans. Aulette explains that child sharing is not unusual in their culture and that the adult responsible for the child should help taking care of them and set a good example. Although the narrator in "An Indian Story" chooses to live with his Aunt Greta rather than with his father, Aunt Greta doesn't turn him away and takes over in caring for him until he moves away for college.
ReplyDeleteI couldn't find any similarities between the family in "An Indian Story" and the working-class black families that Aulette describes. One notable difference would be that Native Americans create an extended network of families out of tradition as opposed to the black families who seem to do it out of necessity.
The narrative of Roger Jack's "An Indian Story" has couple similarities with the way Aulette describes some Native American families. Aulette identifies that Native American's looked over relatives children, and that they had an active family relationship between parents, aunts, uncles, and grandparents. The narrator of "An Indian Story" had some issues with his father, which made him move to his aunts house. The close relationship of the narrator and his aunt shows an example of the similarities that Aulette described about some Native American families. One characteristic in Roger Jack's narrative that was related to Aulette description of a working class African American family was when the narrator of "An Indian Story" moved to his aunts house. The Aunt was the matriarch of where the narrator lived and the household was ran by a woman. Aulette explains a controversial feature that African American women were the dominant figure of the family.
ReplyDeleteI think that “An Indian Story” fits Aulette’s description of a native family because once the dad remarries another woman the son goes to live with his aunt. She takes care of her nephew just as she took care of the grandpa up until he dies. These are two good examples of how natives look after their extended family. This also ties in with the working-class family of the African Americans because they all pull together to help each other out. Weather it is by helping someone out by giving them a place to stay, or helping with the bills…. Which in “An Indian Story” case would be helping the nephew go to college.
ReplyDelete"An Indian Story" fits the profile of an American Native family because they are always looking out for and caring for one another. The Aunt takes care of the boy all the way untill his later years. They have strong family values. With comparing to the African American middle class family its almost the same thing, they stick together and take care of eachother and always find a way to make things work.
ReplyDeleteAccording to Aulette, the Native American Family would be described as a nuclear family composed of parents and children and considered to be a middle class family. Whereas in the "An Indian Story" the family is considered as a non nuclear family that evolves with the changes that occur within the family and how the relationships are affected as the family members try to adapt to circumstances. This clearly shows just how distinct the two families are. One is a nuclear family and the other consists of the extended family members who step in to assist when one of their own is in need.
ReplyDeleteThe following are Aulette's four characteristics that define the Native American Family and how they compare to "An Indian Story:
First, the Native American Family is defined by its tendency to move away from their extended relatives in their pursuit to enhance themselves either due to company relocation, job transfer and the like. Here the family in “An Indian Story” partially fits the description in as far as the generational composition of the family members is concerned. The older generation consisting of Aunt Greta and the narrators’ dad and family still live in the Indian reservation but the narrator himself happens to move away from his kin in his quest to further his education. As a result his tie with his family is lessened just the same way as in the Native American Family according to Aulette.
Second, the Native American Family is inclined to replace their kin with other institutions for economic support like banks for loans. When the Aunt takes care of the narrator there is no mention of her asking for the narrator’s upkeep thus financially she shared her resources with her family and did not need to get loans elsewhere as is the case in the Native American Family.
Third, as stated by Aulette, the Native American Family reliance on friendship for emotional support that does not involve the sharing of resources. Aunt Greta provided emotional support when one of her extended family member was facing conflict with his immediate family as well as sharing her resources thus differing with Aulette’s definition of the Native American Family.
Lastly, investment of resources in the Native American Family is done lineally among the parents and children but in the “An Indian Story”, the aunt invests her resources in the narrators up bringing who is her extended family member. This would not have been the case in the Native American Family.
In conclusion the two families differ because they hold kinship relation differently where the Native American Family avoids ties with extended family members and in the Indian Story the extended family plays a pivotal role as they share resources and relate with each other.
On the other hand, the family in “An Indian Story” has lots of similarities with the African American family as well as few differences namely;
They both engage in child sharing where the extended family members play a role in bringing up children on behalf of relatives though as a result of different circumstances. One is motivated by conflict as in the Indian story the other is due to financial need
Major differences come in their residency are in different location Indian story is in the reservation and African American are located at some flats.
The Indian story emphasis on culture and history and the African American does not though history especially discrimination does influence some family decisions.
They both emphasis need for education or encourage it for success but for African American families use education to overcome discrimination they also take it as a Community responsibility where education is seen as a symbol of achievement for the family and race advancement but the Indian story does not hold it as a community thing.
Generally this latter part tries to show how race affects the composition and definition of the family in the context of race.
Roger Jack's narrative, "An Indian Story", fits Aulette's description of Native American families. In "An Indian Story", the narrator moves in with his aunt once his father remarries another woman. This fits with Aulette's statement of extended Native American family networks. She mentions that Native Americans not only rely on family but also on nonkin. Aulette also mentions that Native Americans have naming ceremonies. These naming ceremonies are also pointed out in "An Indian Story". Roger Jack's narrative is related to the working class African American family in the sense that both their networks are composed of kin and nonkin.
ReplyDeleteAulette’s description of Native American families is very similar to the family in Roger Jack’s narrative, “An Indian Story.” Aulette points out that Indian families have an “active kinship” which means that intermediate and extended family all help each other out. Although she mentions that this can seem informal, the naming ritual can make a child formally introduced into the family, and we see in “An Indian Story” when Aunt Greta takes in the boy as her own and wants to give him his own name.
ReplyDeleteI did not see significant similarities to the family in “An Indian Story” and Aulette’s description of working-class African American families. Aulette touches heavily on the subject that African American families have black matriarchy, saying that mothers are head of households. In “An Indian Story,” I didn’t get the impression of this at all.
I believe Roger Jack's family fits Aulette's description of a Native American family. Aulette says that within Native American families, their kinship is strong and tight knit, a nuclear family if you will. Although Roger did not live with his father and stepmother throughout his life, he shared his adolescent life with his Aunt in a Native American community. Roger Jack's family in "An Indian Story" does not resemble much of what Aulette had to say about working-class African American Families. The only similarity I see that is shared between the two would be kin membership and shared child raising since Aunt Greta raised Roger. "An Indian Story" does not involve much 'swapping, it was more so that Aunt Greta took over raising Roger. And domestic authority of women didn't seem too big of a deal in a Native American family. In "An Indian Story" it was portrayed that Aunt Greta was this invincible lady whom Roger constantly adored and looked up to, but when reflected in his life with his father and stepmother, his stepmother as a woman didn't seem to play a huge role. Then again this would be different in any other situation since everybody runs differently, in some families, women provide more, etc.
ReplyDeleteI think that "An Indian Story" fits the description of Native American families. Aulette talks about the naming ceremonies in the Native American families which is mentioned in "An Indian Story." Native American families are very close families which I think is a lot like the African American families in his story. Aunt Greta takes in her grandpa and later on her nephew to help them out which you can compare to how the African American families come together to help each other out.
ReplyDeleteAfter Reading Aulette's article I could see many similarities between the way that the the Native American family lived in "An Indian Story" and the way that the African American Families live. The article makes notice that the African American families live in a structure that is neither nuclear nor male dominated families. Jack's life with his Aunt Greta is very much like this. Even though he lives with his Aunt Greta he still see's his father from time to time. Also in Aulette's article she cites that the children in the African American community see their numerous authoritarian family members and having more parents even though they are not directly related to that person. I think that this point is clearly displayed in Jack's story when he describes his visit with his father and then his return to his aunt towards the end of the story.
ReplyDeleteIn "An Indian Story" Roger Jack live in a unique family. His mother passed away and his father remarried. Roger Jack was raised by his Aunt Greta, she was a mother figure that was an important part of his life. This family is nothing like a nuclear family but it still functions. Aulette's discription of Native American families fits Roger Jack's family. Aulette says, "An Indian family, therefore, is an active kinship system inclusive of parents of parents, children, aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents and is accompanied by the incorporation of significant non-kin who be one family members." Aulette explains how in a Native American family it is important that familiy member as well as freinds work together to raise children. Other then that I don't see any other similarities.
ReplyDeleteAulette also describes the African American working-class as being woman dominated and disorganized. It promoted the need for male dominace in order to save black families. She also described "The Flats" as communities wich were neither nuclear or nor male dominted. They were based on kin and nonkin membership, shared child raising, swapping, fluid physical boundaries, and domestic authority of women. In "An Indian Story" the only similarities was the idea of kin and nonkin membership and shared child raising. Aunt Greta helped raise Roger Jack but his father was still a part of his life. Roger Jack still looks for his dad for advice and turn to him for help.
The story "an indian story" closely resembles aulette's description this is so because in both an indian story and aulette's they both have a very close bond within family weather its the immediate family or extended family. Also for a someone to take in a child in the indian culture it is not very common but in the african american culture it is. but in an Indian story greta does it anyways.
ReplyDeleteAulettes depiction of Native American life closely resembles that of "An Indian Story". Aulette says that an Indian family is a very closely knit kinship system made up of parents, children, aunts and uncles, and, and grandparents. In "An Indian Story", this family is not the most functional but they still function as an extended family and by Greta taking in her nephew this shows that their kinship is very close.
ReplyDeleteAs for a relationship between African-American families there is a similarity as well. Aulette states that black families will watch over all children in the community, even if there is no relation. Greta watches after her nephew when she does not want children. This is one similarity.
The similarties between between Aulette's discription of Native Americans families and Roger Jack's narrative is the key aspect of family ties and support. In Jack's narrative, we see how family relationships help during the time of need, including when a family becomes disorganized from a tragedy. That fits with Aulette's description because she talks about "replacing kin with friends in seeking emotional and social support". Which is exactly what happened when the narrator in "An Indian Story" moved in with Aunt Greta.
ReplyDeleteIn the African American Families portion of Aulette's extract, we see how there is strong women leadership in families. We also see this from Aunt Greta in "An Indian Story". How the woman takes care of others (Grandpa and narrator).
Roger Jack's narrative "An Indian Story" fits Aulette's description of Native American family. It fits because both describe how the extended family works. Aulette vaguely and briefly describe how parents, aunt, uncles, and grandparents, etc can all be involved. In "An Indian Story" the boy his raised by his Aunt, while not being a traditional family unit, it shows one way the kinship system works. It is also similar to how Aulette describes the working-class African American families because she mentions how they can share child raising, the only difference was in "An Indian Story" the boy didn't leave his Aunt until he went off to college.
ReplyDeleteFrom reading "n Indian Story". there are specific ways and similiarties that I have found that corresponds to Aulette's description of Native American Families. In Roger Jack's narrative, he pulls into some trouble between him and his dad, so he eventually moved in with his Aunt Greta. She welcomes him into living with her, and so forth, he grew up in her home. This example resembles Aulette's story that native american families care for each other and are always there for each other. This family may look a bit dysfunctional from most families, but that's what makes a a culture of the family different. There isn't quite a similarity between native americans and african americans, but for one similarity that they do look out for people of their own kind even though they are not related to each other. It all turns down to being there for each other, and those are the similarites I see.
ReplyDeleteI believe that "an indian story" portrays alot of the qualitites that native american famalies are shown in Aulettes's description. The exerpt says that an indian family is an active kinship system, and the narrarator Roger Jack lived and was raised by his aunt Greta, but it is a bit different because aulette says that non-kin also become a part of family, like nieghboors and friends. "an indian story" didn't include any non family members. In Aulettes description native american famalies preform naming rituals, and in "an indian story" rojer jack is supposed to be given a name by his aunt greta.
ReplyDeleteAulette's description of Native American Families fits with Roger Jack's narrative. Aullete's description includes an active kinship of all family members and the sharing of children. Both of these ideas are present in "An Indian Story". For example, the narrator's Aunt Greta plays an active role in the narrator's life. She is an example of the sharing idea. The narrator does not want to live with his father and his new family so he lives with his Aunt instead. She poses as a guardian/parent-type figure to him. Furthermore, Aunt Greta encouraged her him to stay close to the other native American's their community and to always keep them close wherever he went which is an excellent example of active kinship of all family members.
ReplyDelete"An Indian Story" also has similarities with Aullete's description of African American families. For example, there are both blood mothers and mothers. Aunt Greta is an example of the term mother and not blood mother. Another idea is the idea that households change and overlap. Aunt Greta's household changed during her life. Her husband died, and she ended up caring for her grandfather in old age and her nephew. She did not have just the normal nuclear family. The differences and similarities of the two are probably due to the idea that both African Americans and Native Americans share the idea of looking out and keeping close the entire community. They function as a group, not just individual families.