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I get the impression that Samuel de Champlain was rather surprised at the physical appearance of the Native Americans. His statements about their physical presence really seem to give me the impression that those back-home in Europe were really at a loss as to what to expect in the New World. The statement that their skin color is beautiful, "although olive" was rather amusing for its historical value. Also of interest was John Tanner's talk of being drunk and of his Native American adopted mother, Net-no-kwa, being drunk. The native Americans had whiskey? And was drunkeness something common? That always seemed like a western, European thing to me. John was supposedly drunk for two days, and did nobody really notice? I guess it really gives the modern person a real sense of their life span when a thirteen year old boy would be drunk for two days and nobody really reacting to it. It was also interesting to see how the trade of John was affected by, as it seems, getting everybody tipsy. -Chris Plummer | I get the impression that Samuel de Champlain was rather surprised at the physical appearance of the Native Americans. His statements about their physical presence really seem to give me the impression that those back-home in Europe were really at a loss as to what to expect in the New World. The statement that their skin color is beautiful, "although olive" was rather amusing for its historical value. Also of interest was John Tanner's talk of being drunk and of his Native American adopted mother, Net-no-kwa, being drunk. The native Americans had whiskey? And was drunkeness something common? That always seemed like a western, European thing to me. John was supposedly drunk for two days, and did nobody really notice? I guess it really gives the modern person a real sense of their life span when a thirteen year old boy would be drunk for two days and nobody really reacting to it. It was also interesting to see how the trade of John was affected by, as it seems, getting everybody tipsy. -Chris Plummer | ||
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| + | Just as a general question, was Mary Jemison's situation common, in the sense that she did not want to move back into white society when the Native Americans allowed her to? Perhaps she chose to remain with the Native Americans because she was captured when she was young and life with the Native Americans was the only life she knew and felt comfortable in. ~Katherine S.~ | ||
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| + | In response to Kelly's comment about Mary Rowlandson taking food from a starving child, I think Mary was just trying to survive in what she considered a horrid world. It seemed to me that she had an attitude of every person for themselves, and she was looking out for herself by eating the child's food. ~Katherine S.~ | ||
