First provide an overview of the materials we learned in last week’s Module 6 and this week’s Module 7. What were the main topics, and
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During Module 6 we learned about settlers’ arrival to America and the beginning stages of
them establishing colonies. We read and watched videos that discussed how disease and
war were brought to the natives when settlers arrived and how children’s tales such as
Pocahontas were much bleaker than we are commonly taught. Building off of these topics
into Module 7 we learned about the brutality of colonial expansion. The tactics used to
expand the colonies were similar to the tactics used to create the colonies: removal of
natives from their land, war, enslavement, etc. A new strategy was to coerce natives into
fighting alongside a country. For example, during the French and Indian war, natives fought
alongside either Britain or the French. In Module 7 we also built on these concepts by
learning about how American Government is primarily based on principles learned from the
Native Americans.
In Module 7 I learned about “The Great Law,” a concept I had yet to be taught. I have been
aware of the fact that the natives taught the settlers how to survive and many other things,
yet I had no idea that the first constitutions were so largely based on Native American
ideologies. It was interesting to learn how the union of the colonies was based on a speech
given by the Iroquois chief. The natives were present in almost every step of the formation
of the early American colonies’ governments, in fact, several chiefs were invited to events
such as the Continental Congress and were even housed in the Independence Hall. These
facts point toward settlers being extremely grateful toward the natives and looking up to
them, yet they instead began the expansion of the colonies and removal of natives.
In the fifth grade, I did a Mission project where we learned about a Mission of our choice
and then build a replica of that Mission. We were taught about how these institutions
“saved” the natives, which I have known to be untrue for many years now. Throughout this
course thus far I have been connecting what I previously learned about how the settlers
“saved” the natives to the reality of how the natives saved the settlers. Beyond just
teaching the settlers how to survive they also taught them the principles used to form the
early constitutions which I learned in this Module. This also connects to the Dangers of a
Single Story in that for so many years I was taught to look at this inaccurate story with a
eurocentric view.
For this week’s Blog #4 assignment, please answer the following questions in at least
300 words minimum:
1) First provide an overview of the materials we learned in last week’s Module 6 and this
week’s Module 7. What were the main topics, and how do these two modules build off of
each other?
2) In this week’s Module 7, what is something new you learned? What information was
particularly interesting/surprising to you, or what resonated with you most?
3) Lastly, based on this week’s Module 7 materials, please share any connections you
noticed. You could either connect this week’s materials to one of our key terms, our
theme of the “Danger of a Single Story,” personal experiences, topics in your other
classes, independent research, or current events.
After you have completed your initial response to the prompt, be sure to also submit a
response to 1 peer in at least 150 words minimum to complete the entire assignment.
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