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I agree with Amanda it seems like the government came in and told the Indians how and what to grow, but didnt teach them anything past that. The article talks about how the Indians did not like the way the food tasted or how it would spoil after a while. If the government was going to take the time to show the Indians how to produce the new foods, why not teach them how to perserve the new foods, or even cook and season them, so that the food was edible. It looks like the gov't only gave the Indians half of the knowledge they needed to make the new foods work. And if the Indians were happy beofre why even change it up in the first place? - Landon Davis | I agree with Amanda it seems like the government came in and told the Indians how and what to grow, but didnt teach them anything past that. The article talks about how the Indians did not like the way the food tasted or how it would spoil after a while. If the government was going to take the time to show the Indians how to produce the new foods, why not teach them how to perserve the new foods, or even cook and season them, so that the food was edible. It looks like the gov't only gave the Indians half of the knowledge they needed to make the new foods work. And if the Indians were happy beofre why even change it up in the first place? - Landon Davis | ||
| + | I think this article reflects just one of the many challenges Native Americans faced when the government tried to assimilate them. The government never stopped to appreciate the Native Americans had a different, but effective culture that reached even into agricultural practices. Th story of the potatoes was humorous to me, but also kind of sad - the food the Native Americans were given to survive, to sustain themselves, they had trouble adapting to, just as they had trouble adapting to the new prairie lands they were forced to farm on. I am still thinking about all the potatoes left to sit and rot in the ground, showing how futile it is to try to force a whole culture to change the way they had been doing things for hundreds of years. ~Juliann Boyles | ||
== Rose Cohen Describes Her First Job in New York City, 1892 == | == Rose Cohen Describes Her First Job in New York City, 1892 == | ||
