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I liked the part in the beginning where, as there was the protest against Columbus day in 1992, the one Sioux man decided to declare it a celebration for the Indian culture that had survived. I think ...

I wish I had read this chapter before, because it was so cool. It's strange to me that we never hear about this movement when studying all the movements that happened in the sixties and seventies. We ...

I thought it was horrible that the new American settlers treated the Indians like a nuisance, a problem that they were getting rid of by way of their legal and political system. The fact that it was s ...

This reading brought up a point that I thought was very interesting. The new American settlers were trying to take over the Native American's land, and because they could not kill them all off, they h ...

I worked with Steph today on the big paper activity, and the thesis that we came up with was that the tribes that were willing to adopt some European ways of life were left alone and more able to reta ...

One part of this reading that was not a very large part of the story but was a part that I found really interesting was the part about the Sand Creek Massacre. It brought up a lot of questions that I' ...

I'm glad Maggie brought up this idea, because it's one that i was very torn by while reading this chapter. On one hand, it's important to be proud of our own culture, and be educated about what our an ...

hey its abby. sorry i wasn't in class today i just got back from baltimore.

i have the hopi tribe.

thanks

The aspect of horses in this reading opened a lot of doors for the Native Americans that I hadn't considered before. The domestication of horses, for the Native Americans, became a strong spiritual co ...

While reading this, I found myself starting to take note of some of the Native American practices that reminded of certain religious rituals and traditions that you still see today. For example, I fou ...

As an answer to Maggie's question, in the very beginning Page references the Native Americans' reaction to the first arrival of the Spaniards, and how they believed it was the second coming of their g ...

It seemed to me that the Native Americans in this reading shared a lot of similarities with other societies in history. They had groups of nobles who ruled, and there was a kind of monarchy based on a ...

I really enjoyed that Jake Page chose to use these stories in this chapter. They were my favorite part. I think he chose to use them here because to become a historian like him, you have to apply hist ...

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Bohr drew the line between nature and mechanics. He said "one must assume that there are forces in nature of a kind completely different from the usual mechanical sort." He studied enough of ...