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Chapters Read This Week: _____________________________________________ Pages Read This Week: ___________________________________ Codes: (Q) Question; (C) Connect; (P) Predict; (CL) Clarify; (R) Reflect; (E) Evaluate What Sacagawea Means to Me Page #s Response and Comments If The US Is Eden, Then Sacagawea is Eve. 9 (E) Eden from the Bible, is a land of abundance and beauty, and a peaceful place. Whereas Eve is the woman who defied Gods orders, given in to temptation, and made humans and exile from Eden. The US is certainly a beautiful place, but it is not peaceful. There is never a moment where the whole country is in peace. Also, by stating Sacagawea is Eve, that would mean Sacagawea defied the US laws and became an outsider. But is she? Isnt she a hero among the Natives race? Eve is not a hero. In that sense, colonization might be a natural process, tragic and violent to be sure, but predictable and ordinary as well, and possibly necessary for the advance, however constructive and destructive, of all civilizations. 10 (R) Colonization are indeed tragic in every country. Indigenous people died, along with their culture and history. Now we can only assume and study their story through a long process. But it does provide advancement to the colonized and the colonizing. World trade and currency risen, and new goods were introduced. But I believe the act of colonizing can be avoided if only the human being would stop desiring power over another. The story of Lewis and Clark is also the story of the approximately forty-five nameless and faceless first- and second- generation European Americans who joined the journey, then left or completed it, often without monetary or historical compensation. 10 (C) Lewis and Clark are definitely only the representatives of this journey, just as many other stories have representatives. Such as the story of Columbus and the discovery of the New World. Hes obviously not the only one who discovered America during that time. The only problem was whether the sailors who came before Columbus returned to Europe. There were stories of people sailing away and never returned from
What Sacagawea Means to Me Page #s Response and Comments other countries. The Lewis and Clark Expedition was exactly the kind of multicultural, trigenerational, bigendered, animal- friendly, government-supported, partly French-Canadian project that should rightly be celebrated by liberals and castigated by conservatives. 10 (Q) Of course the US would want to produce the story positively. They want the world to think they produce great opportunities. Do you ever hear a downside of a discovery expedition? This quote even said this story was government-supported. How often do the government tell us the truth? How can we trust what the government is telling us? Has it ever cross your mind that the government sugar-coated the story? When did a higher power ever give so much credit to an indigenous race without making them sound great with it? I remain stunned by these contradictions, by the successive generations of social, political, and artistic mutations that can be so beautiful and painful. 10 (P) Changes are always happening. Not just in the US, but the whole world. Most major changes are made after an extensively painful experience. Without war, would we want peace? Without tyranny and monarchy, would we want freedom? There are many things that slowly changing right now. For example, alien rights in the US. Right now, itll definitely be painful to those that are fighting for it, but in the future, when it is won, it will make this place beautiful.