Native American Studies

with Professor Chris Vecsey, Religion and Native American Studies

We met with Professor Vecsey at 10:30 a.m. for a history lesson. The history lesson was about the trade going on with the Native Americans and the Hudson Bay Company. This time period was from the 19^th until the 20^th century. The most important part of this discussion was the exchanges of the Beaver Hides and how the Europeans traded almost anything for these precious things that people turned into Hats. During this time they killed millions of beavers. After this the Beaver was very scarce for a few hundred years.

We saw a variety of different pictures and maps of the region where they traded. They basically traded along the East Coast.

Smoke Signals

With Professor Sarah Wider, English

We went to lunch after the History lesson. After lunch, we met with Professor Wider. She teaches literature. During the time that we were with her we discussed the screenplay of “Smoke Signals.” We watched clips of the movie to examine the differences of the ending of the screenplay and the ending of the movie. After we watched this, we expressed the differences in many different ways. We discussed the many different feelings the author, Sherman Alexie, was expressing. We also read some of the original screenplay and asked questions about certain lines and why they were not in the movie. After this, we were given the screenplay of The Lone Ranger and Tonto: A Fistfight in Heaven. We were given this for reading at home.

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