What Was The Difference Between Roosevelt And Sacajawea

Bhabha suggests that Colonial discourse is the discourse in which representations, images, and identities of the colonial subjects: the colonizer and the colonized are unequally constructed and maintained for a specific reason ("The Other Question "18). Although, the cinematic Roosevelt has the historical Roosevelt's character he does not have his actual memories and life experience. He saves Sacagawea's l life by pushing her out of the way of a stagecoach. He tells her: “You worth saving my dear” (Night 1:30:46). This suggests that he, in the film, is a modified reproduction of the historic Roosevelt who describes Indians, in his book The winning of the West (1904) as "fickle savages"(127). and who writes about Native People in wartime:"The
When he is cut into two by this coach, Sacagawea melts him using fire. This suggests that Roosevelt is not real. Thus, his ability to split into two and be put back together is very telling part of the difference between them as he announces: "I was made in mannequin factory in Poughkeepsie"(1:18:37-1:1845). The Whites have the ability to survive and outlive Native Peoples. On the other hand, Sacajawea is represented as the real historic Sacajawea who is awakened in a statue form as a result of the mysterious Egyptian curse. Sacajawea never admits being the same like Roosevelt which may suggest that she may face death any time more than Roosevelt. She possesses the interiority of the real Sacajawea's memories and experiences. She makes fire using two rocks in the middle of snow (1:34:05-1:34:30). The way she makes fire suggests that she belongs to a vanishing race and vividly represents the Indian Princess stereotype that is in desperate need for the White man and exerts effort to sustain his presence. Finely in Queer Indigenous Studies (2012) "confirms that audiences are led to believe this statue of Sacajawea is the actual Sacajawea
She is represented as closer to nature and less than human. Like Pocahontas in the Disney film whom D Mihesuash, in the book American Indians: stereotypes and realities (1996) describe as a heroine who is clothed provocatively (contrary to the modest dress typical of women in her tribe) and in true Disney fashion (10). Sacagawea's Costume simply refers to her race as wears a short-sleeved beaded buckskin dress but does not refer to her tribe as it does not go below her knees yet she is not cold in the New York winter. Denzin in "Sacagawea's Nickname, or Sacagawea Problem"(2006) explains:"The bodies of Native American woman have been turned into the object of male sexual gaze" (23). The gendered sexual gaze introduces and exposes the erotic, political side of everyday life under patriarchy. The active aggressive gaze of Lewis and Clark is harsh and masochistic(painful). It affirms their power over Native American women. At the same time, it suggests that sexual gazing was commonplace in the Expedition.