Idiot’s Guide to Native American History; Chapter 11
My initial response to this reading was to hate myself a little for being a white person; since white people have a long standing history of mistreating Native American peoples (not that I wasn’t aware of that before). Reviewing these events in such a candid way made me want to sit through high school history again. I feel like I’ve forgotten most of these event; or maybe never learned them at all.
I was assigned to do a project Cherokee Trail of Tears when I was in Middle School. Reading the section about it, reminded me of the project. We were supposed to research a Native American Tribe in teams. The “team” in my eighth grade class studied the Cherokee. We decided to narrow the subject matter, and looked at specific historic events surrounding the Cherokee tribe. We summarized the events of the Trail of Tears and made it into a story. Then we read it in front of our class.
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