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Discussion for Assignment #1

Be sure to not only include the 5 things you found interesting in your

reading, but please also address the questions in this prompt:

Discuss your readings from Assignment #1. What were they about?

What did you think was interesting or odd about the issues covered

in these readings? Have you learned anything new thus far about

history, history classes, history textbooks, or the teaching of history?

To help you understand just how much is left out of the histories we

are taught, let me ask you to think about the following question:

Based upon what you have been taught about Native Americans, if

you were to give me a population estimate of the number of Na-

tives in the Americas (North and South) at the time of Columbus'

landing in 1492, what kind of population would you guess was here?

How many people? Again, only based on what you have been

taught or the impressions given to you by your teachers, not what

you may have researched on your own.

To go a little further, still basing this upon what you have been

taught, how would you describe these native peoples? What adjec-

tives would you use?

1. Please post an initial response to these questions of at least 150

words

2. Reply (2 or 3 sentences) to at least 3 other students' initial post-

ings.

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