This final cartoon fits in quite well with many of the topics we have discussed in class. The artist depicted an angry mob of US citizens carrying wooden planks to drive the American Indians out of their country. To me it was just ironic because the mob chasing the Indian are the real immigrants to this country. Personally, I think the stigma behind immigration reforms involving American Indians is a joke because this is their country and in most cases we are the immigrants. The angry mob stated, “Immigrants go back to where you come from,” and the Indian man responded with, “He took the words out of my mouth.” The dialogue within this political cartoon was quite comical in a way because the Native Americans saw the Anglo-Saxons as the immigrants to their land. Basic knowledge that Native Americans are native to the Americas and the struggle they had to endure due to the intrusion of the Anglo-Saxons is enough basic information to analyze this cartoon. I believe the artist's intended message was to explain why we shouldn't push immigration on American Indians when we are the culprits and the immigrants to this country who destroyed their cultural roots. Political cartoons can be useful tools for explaining and understanding political issues occurring not only in the United States, but globally
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