week 2: journeys

.... this week we have been reading journals that the english people wrote on their journeys to north america which they called the "new world" and also they had information about while they were exploring the new world trying to find gold and other new goods they could sell and trade. The relationships between the native americans and the english was pretty much all the same in the journals we have read so far. In the beginning when they first arrived the Native Americans thought that the English were invading their land and since the English didnt know how to really survive and find resources the Native Americans took advantage of that and attacked the English. The English tried to build a wall around their homes and the Native Americans just surrounded that area waiting for the right oppurtunity to attack. Then the English had no way of surviving so they decided to make an agreement with the Native Americans for the good the English had and then in return the Native Americans helped them with their food needs and other things. Their relationship evolved into a friendship once they had the terms set. Thats it for this week.....until next :)

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OK so we have been learning about the Native Americans all week. I find it actually somewhat interesting, maybe because im part Native American, who knows it just interest me. The stories we have been reading have been really hard to take notes on, but the myths in them are fun to read. We watched a movie on the story of Devil's Tower made me wonder do they have stories like that for every natural thing in the United States or is it just that particular story because thats where they were at that time? So i decided to do a little research to figure all this out....http://www.angelfire.com/ia2/stories3/coyote.html...
ok so that story is really long but super good. It shows that the Native Americans did have all different kinds of stories and legends for the things that we just assume God made. In this story they decribe how one of the waterfalls was made on the Great River. You would never think of something like that in such a descriptive way as they did. It makes me look at the things I see on a day to day basis in a totally different way now and I think was this here when God created the world or did the Native Americans have their way in this?