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I actually disagree with Felipe. I liked that Page talked about how things were getting better for the Native Americans. This whole book has been very depressing, and I like that Page is showing that ...

To answer Felipe, I think that what the Native Americans do now is continue to try and revive their culture and gain back respect and control of themselves. This chapter talked a lot about that, and I ...

I think the most interesting part of this chapter is the overall theme of struggle between the old Native American culture, and the new Native American culture arising out of Native Americans going to ...

To answer Steph’s question, I think “violent outbreaks” of Native Americans diminished because the U.S. government had finally utterly suppressed them. This idea is actually what stuck out to me the m ...

Like both Alex and Maggie I noticed that Jake Page talked a lot about assimilation. I thought it was interesting when Page writes “They simply wanted what seemed at the time to be right, which was tha ...

My and Patrick’s thesis is: “The Native Americans used their political skills and military tactics as an effective resistance against the Europeans.

A few people agreed with our thesis, and gave s ...

I thought the most interesting part of this reading was how the death and struggle that all the Native Americans were facing, brought some tribes closer together. Just like it was amazing that Tecumse ...

To answer Abby’s question, I do think that the Native American’s believed in prophecy before Tecumseh. We have read a bunch about Native Americans believing in dreams and we have read some of their st ...

Something I thought that was really interesting was when on page 224, Jake Page talks about how Pontiac and the Great Lakes tribes wanted to get rid of the British so that the French could come back t ...

I think that horses had a mixed affect on the Plains. I think they were an important step in the evolution of life for the Native Americans, because they were a mode of transportation, and made it eas ...

One of the most interesting parts of the reading for me, was the part about the Powhatan “Confederacy.” I never knew that there was this one guy, Powhatan, who ruled over other tribes and chiefs. “Pow ...

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I like your question Meg! To answer it, I think if we became in contact a group of alien people we would react with our instincts. Just li ...

I think this reading builds on what we have read by Jake Page. This reading is mostly about the Europeans coming to the Americas, and what the consequences of that were. So far in Jake Page we haven’t ...

I think Jake Page starts and ends this chapter with traditional stories because they make the historical explanations, analysis, and facts that are sandwiched in-between each story, more personal to t ...