1. Compare the perspectives between the “Columbus Day Comic” and the “Columbus Day Critique.”
https://theoatmeal.com/static/columbus_day.html
https://www.thefeministwire.com/2013/10/christopher-columbus-was-awful-but-this-other-guy-was-not-a-flawed-critique-of-columbus-day-that-omits-indigenous-peoples-in-present-day-and-virtually-ignores-the-enslavement-of/
2.Summarize what was occurring between settlers and Indigenous nations during the early establishment of the United States in “Birth of a Nation.” What was a major example of Native resistance? How did the founding fathers ignore the clan mothers in the establishment of the U.S.?
3.What does the concept “firsting and lasting” mean? First provide the definition, and then provide 2 examples of “firsting” and 2 examples of “lasting.”
4.What argument does NCAI make in the article “Ending the Era of ‘Indian’ Mascots”? What evidence do they provide to support this argument? Lastly, what is the argument in NCAI’s “Proud to Be” commercial?
http://www.ncai.org/proudtobe