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Oct 20

(Laura) mine was blocked.
Good question, I hadn’t given this much thought so this was helpful.

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Oct 20

I didn’t think about this thanks for enlightening me.

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Oct 20

That’s really interesting. I knew that Tommy Orange didn’t like Iron Eyes Cody, but I didn’t know that they were honored during at the time. Really does show how not making the effort to reject stereotypes can be really damaging, because stereotypes lead to bias, leads to actions, leads to genocide.

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Oct 20

Well written summary + explaining why he added it. It helped me to understand why they would completely eradicate them.

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Oct 20

King Philip (Metacome) supposedly instigated war, but previously adopted English names with his brother. Also, many English missionaries spread Christianity to the plymouth colonies, turning many natives to Christ. https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/metacoms-war/httpshttps://landmarkevents.org/chief-metacom-killed-1676/

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Oct 20

I did a similar research to you guys. This helps connect to the historical relocation of the NAtive people.

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Oct 20

>"https://www.history.com/articles/king-philips-war":https://www.history.com/articles/king-philips-war

- King Phillip had originally created the treaty with the English
- Tensions rose
- Wampanoag raids Swansea colony
- English destroy his home village
- England declares war
- Continued fighting until his eventual death

Likely included in order to highlight the existing precedence of violence against natives by Western communities. Demonstrates how they’ve historically been driven out.

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Oct 20

Historical: It is found that the mentioned movie is Apocalypto by Mel Gibson, portraying (UNFINISHED)

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Oct 20

if you just read the book you would never know the natives actually liked the actor because orange portrays it as so evil

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