Inconvenient Indian Thomas King Summary

Have you ever wondered how much your family history and culture affect and shape your life? An analysis of the “Inconvenient Indian” by Thomas King demonstrates that the effects of history on North American decisions still affect Indigenous families today. The three pieces of evidence that lead to this conclusion are, that history is not as objective as it seems; there are few absolutes within it, the grouping of tribes and stereotyping that damages Indigenous people and their reputation, and the destruction of Indigenous land claims and a war on culture during the centuries before today having led to irreparable damage to that culture. Often history is an agreed set of events and stories which often are not the whole truth and more often than not tell both sides of the story. …show more content…
However, the Almo massacre never occurred as there was no mention of the matter until sixty-six years after it had happened. King comments on the massacre as “a Jacobean melodrama complete with “bloodthirsty Indians” (King 7). History can often be fabricated but these false events painted the indigenous groups living there in a bad light, further souring relations between the two groups in an event that didn’t happen and painting them as people who are not deserving of understanding, today there is a plaque still resting in Almo for a massacre that never happened. The stereotyping of North American tribes during colonization affected their image and ability to affect legislation. During the early days of colonization, relations between explorers and tribes were often positive. King describes this time as “Native people in this early period were a critical part of everyday