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"I Heard The Owl Call My Name" and "The Black Robe": The Indians


Although the Indians in I Heard The Owl Call My Name, and in The Black
Robe are primitive in the technological sense, they are neither simple or
emotional people.

The Indians in both texts could be classed as primitive people - if we
take primitive to mean technologically underdeveloped. The level of technology
possessed by the white man is far superior to that of the Indians, yet the
Indians in The Black Robe are happy to accept and use muskets, and in I Heard
The Owl Call My Name they are familiar with motors, washing machines and modern
building techniques brought by white man.

The Indians display their level of ignorance in regard to modern
technology in The Black Robe, when the enemy tribe believed that muskets could
only be fired once and once fired, they are useless. The Indians had little
knowledge of modern materials or tools.

When comparing the Indians in The Black Robe to the Indians in I Heard
The......

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