Q: Where would you go?
A: I would travel to the time where indians where still undomesticated. I would bring along many modern day appliances and toys so that we may form an alliance with them, just as the english once did.
Q:To which year or period would you travel?
A: I would probably travel to the Chesapeake bay, in the fall of 1880.
Q: Who would you want to meet or what event would you want to witness?
A: I would like to see the tribes fight one another, and would like to meet the indians of one of the war tribes, then gain their trust by helping them survive for the winter.
Q: Where would you find this person or see this event?
A: I would find the tribe on the North West side of the bay.
Q: Why would you want to meet this person or witness this event?
A: I would want to meet the tribe because I've heard a lot about them throughout my time at school, but I still feel that their history has been very blurry. From the tools they used to their way of life, we can only guess how some that where wiped out used their tools.
Q: How might YOU change history?
A: By helping the indians through their winter totally unharmed, while the english where being destroyed in the cold weather, I might accidentally change the course of history because even that one year could have wiped out the indians that had helped the English survive, indirectly killing the English and keeping the war tribe savage.
Why do you refer to the Native Americans as "savage"? Many tribes were more advanced than the English. They had more advanced societies then them by far. If anything it's the English who were savages.
ReplyDeleteDirectly from Edmund Steed's Journal (the first man to reach the Choptank Bay) the Indians of the Island all lived in primitive huts. Two of the three tribe's main focus was to raid other camps, therefore making them reasonably "savage". Edmund then taught them the English ways of brick making and variant trees and bushes the English used for tea. They could also be used for food that the Indians simply hadn't thought of until the English had come.
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