reading & questions

Q1. Richter addresses the issue of perspective in the Prologue, stating that “if we shift our perspective to try to view the past in a way that faces east from Indian country, history takes on a very different appearance.” (p. 8) From your reading of pp. 1-68, find at least three examples of the impact of perspective and explain how the three events you’ve chosen to describe have a different impact on historical understanding if viewed through a different lens Q2. Native peoples, according to Richter, came in contact with “European things” before they saw “European people.” (p. 11) How were European items used and integrated into Native cultures? Be sure to provide at least three specific examples. Richter’s description of the use of copper on p. 43 is one example of this Q3 . Native and European uses of land were based in very different understandings of and relationships with the environment. Explain how these two views differed and how the impacts of European settlement affected the land differently than traditional Native use