An Analysis of Reservation Writing in Where the Pavement Ends from the Perspective of Internal Colonialism

Abstract

William Yellow Robe Jr.’s Where the Pavement Ends: Five Native American Plays is his representative drama collection published in 2000. These five dramas faithfully present Indian’s life in Reservation in the 1970s. Based on the perspective of Internal Colonialism, this paper reveals the economic situation, political rights, and Civil Movement of Indian in Reservation. How does the Reservation System affect Indian in the 20th Century? This essay argues that Indian Reservation is the product of White colonization, and the negative effects brought by Whites’ colonization cannot be eliminated. Even today, Indian still struggles to find their place in American society.