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To be honest I haven't had much background either. There have been snippets of Native American history here and there in a lot of my courses and classes over the years, but there hasn't been one basic group that I've really studied intently enough to remember who was who and where. What I do remember is that Europeans and Natives fought a lot and whites forced their ways on the Natives because they felt the Natives' ways were savage and wrong. It would definitely influence how I interpreted these articles because the boarding school one just pissed me off with the way whites treated the Natives. Honestly, if you don't have the food and clothing to provide the students then don't open the school! Or at least secure the funds to properly feed and clothe them. --Ashley Wilkins | To be honest I haven't had much background either. There have been snippets of Native American history here and there in a lot of my courses and classes over the years, but there hasn't been one basic group that I've really studied intently enough to remember who was who and where. What I do remember is that Europeans and Natives fought a lot and whites forced their ways on the Natives because they felt the Natives' ways were savage and wrong. It would definitely influence how I interpreted these articles because the boarding school one just pissed me off with the way whites treated the Natives. Honestly, if you don't have the food and clothing to provide the students then don't open the school! Or at least secure the funds to properly feed and clothe them. --Ashley Wilkins | ||
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| + | I took two classes last semester (17th c. Colonial History and Colonial Biography) that looked briefly at Native Americans, particularly the Tribes in Virginia. I recognized alot of info in the first reading, such as the matrilinear and matrifocal households and the different gender roles (women farming and men hunting.) So while much of what we read for Tuesday seems like old info, I was struck by the fact that men and women weren't necessarily men and women because of biological differences, but by the gender roles they had. So if a man worked in the fields he was considered a woman. I am always interested in Native Americans, I always have been. Reading about the gender roles in the different Native American groups goes to show how different their cultures were and how much of their culture was torn from them.- Celia | ||
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