Choose one general (A or B) AND one text-specific prompt (C or D) and answer both for this week’s discussion forum post. Indicate which prompts you have chosen by putting the letter before your paragraph that answers it begins. See the Class Discussion Guidelines for expectations for this post and how it will be graded.
GENERAL
A Why do you think the Cherokee Nation utilized some of the same language as the Declaration of Independence for their Memorials? What effect did it have on you when reading it?
B Why do you think that our Norton chose to publish Jane Johnson Schoolcraft’s work in both her Native language and English? Name a text we previously read that was also in translation but only the English version was printed in one of our Norton anthologies when you answer and explain why you believe Schoolcraft’s original and translation were provided but not the other text you’ve named.
TEXT-SPECIFIC
C Find two instances when William Apess in our reading for this week mentions God’s Providence or hints at it. What does Providence mean to him? How is it different and how is it the same as the Providence of the Puritans? Use both of the examples you found in the text in your answer.
D Howard Zinn quotes heavily from histories of and people from this era of Native resistance and removal—find two sections of his text where he quotes two different Native sources and explain how these passages add to our understanding of this week’s other texts.
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