Divided Consciousness In American Culture

This story was about a Indian man who grew up in an American society and how he went back to his native tribe to visit his sickly father. Upon arriving the man has become so distant to his tribe where he doesn't believe in any of the traditions that the tribe has, including a "medicine-man" who was performing some sort of ritual to possibly "heal" his father. This is because the man grew up in an American society where Americans don't believe in any of the ritual like performances. Ironically however, this quote shows a similar side to what Indian tribes believe in. That is here most American people believes in the power of the bible and that it is able to heal or protect people, while the Indians has the same concept just that the way they believe in a "religion"
Divided consciousness was what we talked about earlier on in the semester, and this plays a huge part in what identity means to those during that century since many Indian children were brought over to the big cities in America to get education and have American culture planted in their heads. Because of this many Indians as they grew up they wondered who they were, thus setting up the divided consciousness that we talked about in class during this section of study. I liked this story a lot and this story showed many themes and how divided consciousness applies not just culture and identity but in our daily lives as well. For example, when people are buying clothes, food, or anything in general, they sometimes have to choose between two items and they don't know what to choose due to the fact that they want to get one item, but at the same time they want to get the other, and they can't choose both because they only have a certain amount of money to get one item. Thus divided consciousness not only exists within culture and identity, but in my other daily activities as