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1. What do you think of this story? What did you particularly like or dislike about it?

It is similar to many stories, even to the Bible, in its beginning about there being no earth, sea and sky in the beginning. Then an all-powerful being creates animals and man. Even to the story of men not being able to speak and be understood, similar to the story of the tower of Babel.

2. How is this story different from creation stories you have heard before?

It takes several attempts to try to create man. Then, what is created is imperfect and wiped from the earth to try again.

3. Describe how the introduction of firearms from the Europeans changed the lives of the Native Americans.

There were numerous Indian wars. However there were numerous Indian wars before there were firearms, but the Native Americans were more willing to try to bother settlers in Florida and the south who were living in settlements that were fortified.

4. What was significant about the 1721 treaty between the Cherokee and the Colonists?

It was the first treaty the Cherokee had with the whites

5. Describe the different attitudes toward Native Americans held by the French and the British.

The first British settlers saw the Native Americans as people to be honored and assisted. Possibly converted in religion, but that is a side discussion for this point in time. In Jamestown, they lived within the fort walls. The French came in and saw the Native Americans as a people to assimilate, to make part of the national culture, as the French have done so well so many times. The French married into the Native American cultures and accepted them as wives and family, the British looked at them as if they were royal families, needing the “Chief” (a king) to speak for the group.

6. Describe the effect that European diseases had on the Native American populations.

Diseases that the Native Americans were not exposed to since birth wiped out large amounts of the population. They had no natural resistance, nor were they able to survive from smaller exposures. Once the colonists found out this was possible, they used it as a weapon against the Cherokee and others, providing them with the blankets of small pox sufferers to force them to be exposed and to forced reduction in their populations.

7. What do you think of the treaties between the Colonists and the Cherokee? Did the settlers respect them? What did these treaties ultimately mean for the territorial position of the Cherokee?

There were noble intentions by many of the colonists in the treaties with the Native Americans, however there were numerous misunderstandings. There were no national leaders as the Europeans looked for, and so they would take any Native American that would sign the papers and accept him as their tribal “chief” if they wanted to acquire Native American lands. This even after governments of countries and states had negotiated in goof faith to provide places where the Native Americans could continue to live.

However, the people who negotiated those first treaties were not around forever, and when the other settlers came in behind them and decided the native American lands had value, they were not adverse to doing whatever was needed to trick them out of it.

8. Why do you think the Cherokee sided with the British in the Revolutionary War?

The British fighters impressed the Cherokee during the French and Indian war. The fact that many of these “British” hey were impressed by were generals who were the colonists when the Revolutionary War broke out was lost to them, perhaps as much as the way the colonists lost track of who the real tribal leaders when it was to their advantage.

9. From what you have read, what do you think of the interactions between the Cherokee and the Europeans? How did each side behave, in your opinion? Was it all one-sided? Explain your answer. (Write a paragraph.)

Neither side was completely and truly honorable, both had their side vendettas that ran counter to the true feelings of the majority of the Cherokee or colonist population. When the first Cherokee were found at Jamestown, it was also found that the Native Americans and the colonists spent parts of the year within the Jamestown fort together, protecting and assisting one another. Such cooperation should have led to a long and continuously safe interaction between two peoples and their separate nations.

Nevertheless, greed, on both sides, over rides the need to be honorable. Whether the idea that the native Americans were on land that had value (as farm land, gold mines, whatever) or that they should support those who helped them when in need of safety, as the native American/colonist situation began at Jamestown, overwhelmed each sides better intentions.

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