Question

In the poem "sure you can ask me a personal question" how are the colonized people portrayed? How is the process of colonization portrayed?

Answer 1

In this poem written in 1989 by Diane Burns (1957-2006), a Lac Courte Oreilles/Chemeheuvi Native American. She addresses the remaining stereotypes about Native Americans that are a result of the erasure of their culture through colonization.

Step-by-step explanation:

She uses humor and bitter irony to show that colonists first took their lands and then forced them to integrate into a society that trivializes their culture by reducing it to drugs, Cher, and archery.