Difference between revisions of "329--Week 3 Questions/Comments"
From McClurken Wiki
(→1a Right:) |
(→1b Inaccurate/issues:) |
||
| Line 56: | Line 56: | ||
Question: Was the tribe fighting along the French in this film Patrilinial? Many times the Chief seemed to be obsessed with wiping out Munro's seed. Or did he just understand that the English were Patrilinial and therefore wanted to make his contempt for Munro clear?- Jason Ward | Question: Was the tribe fighting along the French in this film Patrilinial? Many times the Chief seemed to be obsessed with wiping out Munro's seed. Or did he just understand that the English were Patrilinial and therefore wanted to make his contempt for Munro clear?- Jason Ward | ||
| + | |||
| + | Watching the film it struck me how insistent Magua was about “wiping out the seed of the grey-haired man.” It seemed unbelievable and if the Huron were matrilineal, it wouldn’t even make sense. – Wesley Weeks | ||
| + | |||
| + | I also liked how the movie portrayed the colonists as already at the time of the French and Indian War as having a national identity as basically Americans. – Wesley Weeks | ||
== 2 Film's relationship to scholarship/primary sources from the time == | == 2 Film's relationship to scholarship/primary sources from the time == | ||
