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In Lewis's description of the attitudes of the Shoshonee people, I couldn't help but notice the parallels between the behavior he described with regard towards their chiefs and the Protestant ideaolody towards God, as well as the American principle of equality. Is Lewis suggesting the Native Americans may have come up with these attitudes independently of Western Enlightenment thinking, or merely that they had been influenced enough by colonial culture that they had come to adopt them from exposure to American behavior through the grapevine? | In Lewis's description of the attitudes of the Shoshonee people, I couldn't help but notice the parallels between the behavior he described with regard towards their chiefs and the Protestant ideaolody towards God, as well as the American principle of equality. Is Lewis suggesting the Native Americans may have come up with these attitudes independently of Western Enlightenment thinking, or merely that they had been influenced enough by colonial culture that they had come to adopt them from exposure to American behavior through the grapevine? | ||
-Adam Shlossman | -Adam Shlossman | ||
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| + | In the Friday August 23rd entry, I find it really interesting the accounts of how the Shoshone have such sophisticated knifes and other objects made of metal when it seems that they are very much removed from the rest of the country. Is there knowledge in such items the result of Spanish interaction or of a different European country that has to colonize? --- Virginia Stratton | ||
== Cherokees Debate Removal, John Ross and Elias Boudinot, 1836-1837 == | == Cherokees Debate Removal, John Ross and Elias Boudinot, 1836-1837 == | ||
