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    Natural World Relationships in La Maravilla by Alfredo Vea Jr. and Fools Crow by James Welch

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    In five pages this report discuses how characters relate to the natural world in a comparative analysis of these works. Two sources are cited in the bibliography.

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    and guns. Alfredo Vea, Jr.s "La Maravilla" presents a world that was once known and understood and is also irrevocably altered. However, its most essential aspects, its magic still  remain for who are still willing to see it. Bibliography lists 2 sources. BWwornat.wps The Natural World According to Welch and  Vea for - April 2001 -- for more information on using this paper properly! Introduction James Welch  presents a world in which all aspects of life are changed by the arrival of white men and their horses and guns. The very presence of the whites becomes  more and more threatening to the Plains tribes survival, because it actually endangers that survival. By killing hundreds of thousands of buffaloes as quickly as was humanly possible, white hunters  eliminated the most essential food and raw material supply of the Plains Indians and, as a result, their way of life. The balance of the natural world was irreversibly broken.  In Alfredo Vea, Jr.s first novel, "La Maravilla," the world that was once known and understood is also irrevocably altered. However, its most essential aspects, its magic still remains  for those such as Beto and his grandparents who are still willing to see that it is still there. In "La Maravilla," unlike "Fools Crow," the reader understands that  the balance that has been broken can be repaired. The Changing World of the Blackfeet When the European-Americans moved into the land of the Blackfeet, they changed the Blackfeet  people for all time. Not only did they impose their own notions of civilization on an indigenous people, they also changed the Blackfeets own perceptions about themselves and the 

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