Songs 1-3

Anon: Virgen Madre de Dios/SAVAE
Apache Indian Drums (Sedona)-American Indian Music
Shaman's Call-R. Carlos Nakai

They were probably just celebrating the beauty of their culture and their beliefs. The songs highlight the lives of the Native Americans before Europeans invited themselves to make homes in the Indians' territory.

The soil we claim as our own today was here long before it was "our's". The Native Americans thrived for many generations on this land and they shared it (sometimes unwillingly) with those who wanted to live and raise their families how they felt they should. The Indians are the beginning of the whole American story in the first place.

Mayflower Question

15. I think that the importance of being objective and unbiased for writing a historical account of something was met by the author. No matter what, a history book is going to be a little biased because they teach the things that they think are the most important and leave some things out; it's not like they can tell you every single thing about history that happened. The whole book was a lesson I think to undo some of the generalizations and cliche thoughts most people have about what happened, I didn't really get a moral lesson out of it though.

Mayflower Question

12. To me, neither side could claim moral superiority. Actions speak louder than words; no matter what face either side put on about trying to look like a victim in the situation, or justifying and rationalizing their motives for showing brutality to the other, the truth is both the English and indians had prejudices against the other and acted as violent as they liked.

Mayflower Question

11. I think that some of the tribes probably joined forces with the English because they had enemies that had sided with King Phillip. They were also being opportunistic and sensible; allying themselves with the English might help assure them safety frooom the English, and they probably foresaw English victory. I think I would have done the same thing, if nothing else then out of fear of facing the English.

Mayflower Question

10. The English assumed that an indian was an indian was an indian, which wasn't true. They tried to kill aaall of the indians, when the indians weren't all together. Tribes probably had enough differences between them to make them as differential as the English and New England natives were to each other, but the English didn't look at it that way. If they took time to better understand the dynamics of the relationships between different tribes the English could definitely have used it to their own advantage.

Mayflower Question

9. I think Church showed humility, and acting just like the first pilgrims, didn't put himself so far above the indians to not ask them for help. He showed tolerance for the Indians who had converted and humbled himself to ask for their help. I don't really think that this makes him a hero though. In all likelihood, he probably had a little prejudice against even the indians that he asked help from, but overcame it because he recognized it as something that needed to be done.

Mayflower Question

8. The book lets you relate to the characters somewhat and helps you think of these historical figures as actual people with real emotions and lives and stuff. Movies a lot of times portray indians as stupid and uncivilized because they lived in tents and didn't wear pants and shirts, or exaggeratingly spiritual, wise, nature-y people. This book shows how smart they really were, and that people are pretty much the same in that they can all be power-hungry and sneaky to get what they want. Squanto is a good example, from all of the planning and deceiving he did, it really humanizes him. The only cliche indian characteristic I can think of as pretty realistic is their use and connection of nature.