Harjo Reading Journal

Due to the racial injustice to the people of her culture, Harjo is taking a stand and highlighting the inequality Native Americans have and are facing. As the paper progresses she continues to outline her point and shows her true passion for equality. Though she never states that it is completely wrong, her rhetoric and diction speaks for itself.

Harjo constructs her argument by providing evidence and facts of the injustice towards Indians by stating that skulls of Indians are in the smithsonian. In addition, she provides personal information about the subject, "Some of my own Cheyenne relatives' skulls are in the smithsonian institution today". Furthermore, she provides more and more facts about Indians being dug up from their graves and and cut up to be examined. Moreover, the whole point of her argument is to be an advocate for equal rights for Native American, and to shine light on the injustices happening right now.