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John Montour: Life of a Cultural Go-Between
In the stories of Indian-white relations in the colonial era, the Indian headmen and the colonial governors are given a prominent role. But in the shadows behind these chiefs and governors were other individuals who were equally essential to the success of the relationship between these two very different peoples. In eighteenth-century documents, they are called interpreters because they literally translated the speeches of each into the language of the other. But they did much more.
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Diary entries, papers, and treaties are an incredibly rich source of information. Original words help reveal the various attitudes toward differing cultures. Even a small selection of quotes will reveal the biases, and, often, the misunderstandings that existed between the Native Americans and the English colonists.
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Teaching
Strategy: Examining a Period Print
In spite of the conflicts that often arose, cooperation did exist between the colonists and Indians during the 1600s and 1700s in areas such as agriculture, fur trade, military alliances, treaties, and cultural exchanges. Examine a 1766 print that illustrates this cooperation.
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Colonial Williamsburg offers a variety of quality instructional materials to help you teach students about life in early America and the interactions between European settlers and Native Americans, including:
—Duel in the Wilderness (book for young readers)
—The Journal of Major General George Washington (primary source)
—The Rise and Fall of the Powhatan Empire: Indians in Seventeenth-Century Virginia (book for teachers)
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The U.S. Department of Education recently published "A Guide to Education and No Child Left Behind," which "provides facts and figures to help you understand the No Child Left Behind Act." Download the PDF file
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“The southern Indians asked leave to be excused from becoming as we are; for they thought it hard, that we should desire them to change their manners and customs, since they did not desire us to turn Indians; however, they permitted their children to be brought up in our way; and when they were able to judge for themselves, they were to live as the English, or as the Indians, according to their best liking."
--Hugh Jones, The Present
State of Virginia, 1724
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