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brendaj commented on the post, Killing Custer – Chapter 5, 6, and 7, November 1 – 7 10 years, 5 months ago
I hope chapter 6 has helped put into perspective for readers, as it did me, what the people of the plains were and are. I have always had difficulty with the image of the “noble red man,” for as much as I might […]
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brendaj commented on the post, Killing Custer – Introduction and Chapter 1, October 18 – 23 10 years, 5 months ago
Thank you, Marcia. I really needed to hear that.
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brendaj commented on the post, Killing Custer – Chapter 2, 3, and 4, October 25 – 31 10 years, 5 months ago
Jane,
This makes me feel really bad. We are human, and it is natural to see the world from our limited viewpoints. The really great thing is that we have the ability to expand our view through education, and […]
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brendaj commented on the post, Killing Custer – Introduction and Chapter 1, October 18 – 23 10 years, 5 months ago
Ashley,
A book I would recommend for 8th and 9th grade students is Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian. However, as good as it is, some parents object to the content. Kids love […]
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brendaj commented on the post, Killing Custer – Chapter 2, 3, and 4, October 25 – 31 10 years, 5 months ago
Ashely,
Last year my students wrote some incredible two voice poems after studying the Baker Massacre and the Holocaust. I don’t have copies with me in Browning, where I teach, but I do have copies at my […]
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brendaj commented on the post, Killing Custer – Introduction and Chapter 1, October 18 – 23 10 years, 5 months ago
Gatsinzi,
Let me preface my response first by saying it is always so nice to have a conversation with you, and you have asked some very good questions that I will attempt to answer. First, each tribe has its […]
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brendaj commented on the post, Killing Custer – Chapter 2, 3, and 4, October 25 – 31 10 years, 5 months ago
A few years ago I visited the Custer Battlefield, the Black Hills, and a few other places that Welch mentions in the book. I was on vacation with my husband and another couple, good friends and neighbors. I was […]
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brendaj commented on the post, Killing Custer – Introduction and Chapter 1, October 18 – 23 10 years, 5 months ago
Somewhere in the chapter Welch says something to the effect that the Blackfeet never recovered from this attack. It was just a few short years later that what we call the Starvation Winter happened. It was a […]
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brendaj commented on the post, Killing Custer – Chapter 2, 3, and 4, October 25 – 31 10 years, 5 months ago
The sense that I am getting from these chapters is that like most people, Sitting Bull, Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, and others wanted to be left in peace, to be able to live as they had always lived, taking care of […]
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brendaj commented on the post, Killing Custer – Introduction and Chapter 1, October 18 – 23 10 years, 5 months ago
Ashley,
My students have been reading about the attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and some are shocked when they realize that it was the United States that dropped the two atomic bombs. I too remember how it […]
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brendaj commented on the post, Killing Custer – Introduction and Chapter 1, October 18 – 23 10 years, 6 months ago
It is 3:30 in the morning, and I can’t sleep. Am suffering from a head cold, but that does not prevent my mind from churning. I have been worrying about the book discussion on Killing Custer, wondering what […]