Native Americans and Palestinians Occupation, Exile, and Resistant Poetry

Abstract

This study analytically presents a clear description of similar
experience and responses of dispossession of people in North America
and Palestine. Native Americans (the Red Indians) and Palestinians
have both faced the same situation of colonization; the first one by the
Europeans (the white), and the second one by the Zionists.
The conditions of Native Americans, isolated in reservations
within the boundaries of their native land, are extensively similar to
the current situation of Palestinians, who are compelled to stay in
refugee camps, and Arab ghettoes inside the borders of Palestine.
One can easily observe other points of convergence and
divergence between them, not only in the processes of events, but also
in the subject of writing poetry; the feeling of nostalgia, and the idea
of resistance.
The objective is to show both the victims of those two unfairly ruled
and oppressed nations by the occupants.