"Moving Camp too Far"

“Moving Camp too Far” written by Nila NorthSun. The things she says she can’t do is all apart of her native culture. She can do things that we do in today’s time because technology has gotten so advance that we all forget about the native ways. Nila Northsun is comparing what she can’t do anymore but what she can do now. I looked up the word “travois” (line 3), it is what the Indians use to carry supplies and camp over land. The statement, “i don't know what it/was to hunt buffalo/or do the ghost dance” (lines 8-10), which is stating what the Indians do and she compares that statement with what we do now, “i can eat buffalo meat/at the tourist burger stand/i can dance to Indian music/ rock-n-roll hey-a-hey-o”(Lines 17-20). This is significant to seeing the change to what we do now compare to what they did. The last statement sums it all up with saying, “i can/& unfortunately/ i do” (lines 21-23). This could mean that unfortunately the Indian in her is becoming extinct, to the life of today.