1. We have read several texts describing a select few of the civilizations of North America prior to1450 (David La Vere, F. Kent Reilly III, James A. Brown, Robert Hall, and George Lankford).Discuss three examples of how these texts might help us to understand or appreciate better some ofthe details we encounter in the following texts about the period after 1450: Cherokee Dragon,Walking the Choctaw Road. 

2. We have read three scholarly texts that attempt to inform the reader about gender relations inNative North America (Women and Power in Native North America, The Lynx in Time, AGathering of Rivers). Discuss three ways in which these texts help us to better understand ourliterary texts (Cherokee Dragon, Walking the Choctaw Road, Jane Johnston Schoolcraftswritings) or how the literary texts help us to see things about gender that the scholarly texts did notemphasize. 

Note: For questions #1 and #2 above, students should choose one writer/text from the first list in thequestion for each paragraph and pair it with one writer/text from the second list in the question for thatparagraph. Each paragraph should have such a pairing, and the ideas from the first writer/text shouldbe explained sufficiently before examples from the second writer/text are brought in to illustrate,supplement, or contradict those ideas. 

3. Discuss three distinct ways in which Native women and men have resisted the United Statespolicy of (and actions surrounding) forcible removal from land and home, using three of thefollowing texts: John Rosss letters and addresses, Maris Bryant Pierces address, Walking theChoctaw Road, Tell Them They Lie, Jane Johnston Schoolcrafts writings, Wilma Dunawaysarticle. Please note that introductions, such as in the Ross and Schoolcraft readings cannot be usedas the main text here but only as contextual backup. 

4. Discuss the formation of multiethnic, mixed blood, or creole communities and/or identities inNorth America after European intrusion, using Cherokee Dragon, Walking the Choctaw Road,Jane Johnston Schoolcrafts writings, John Rosss letters and addresses, A Gathering of Rivers.Using three distinct examples from three different texts, explore the viability, complexity, nature,significance, AND/OR suppression of such communities/identities.