Idrntify three significant facts about cherokee removal

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Assignment:

It's not uncommon to hear (or say) things like "Native Americans got the shaft" or "History helps us understand how we got to where we are today" or "History helps us learn from the past." But how can we "translate" such vague phrases into something more tangible?

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Using these letters & numbers in your submission, please...

A) Identify and rank three significant facts about Cherokee Removal (from the podcast):

B) You are a scriptwriter; your hard-hitting Broadway play is entitled "Greetings, Dispossessed Indian."

Actor 1 is non-Native (male/female/age/name?) living in an old house on an old farm that was once Cherokee land.

Actor 2 is a Cherokee citizen, now of Oklahoma (male/female/age/name?) coming to visit her/his ancestral homeland.

Scene: They meet (how do they meet?) and have a conversation.

For both actors, include three possible emotions they might experience in this encounter.

Write actual dialog (minimum of 5 per actor - meaningful back-and-forths) for their conversation.

In your conversation, integrate knowledge of:

1) shared historical experience/trauma (e.g., disease, removal, assimilation);

2) the importance of ancestral landscape connectedness, and;

3) one of the 3 facts above, AND a selection of the emotions you identified (your choice).

C) Reflection (5-8 sentences): How might we connect Indian Removal to larger themes and issues in America, such as... What is the story of American history? What have we accomplished? What kind of society have we built here? What are our values as a nation? What do we (as a nation and as individuals) "do with" having a past about which we may not always be proud? (make SURE you engage this last part of the reflection)!

Standard DB rules apply (early initial post, then two response posts to two of your classmates).

Reference no: EM133733165

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