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This article, I believe, added an extra sense of thriving culture to Stafford (alongside marking its territory in the uprising/history of the United States), which is often regarded as stale suburbia lacking in those particular areas.
In my opinion, it also is interwoven with the last article that was our assignment. While the last clearly displayed the growing sense efficiency in technology, I think this one exudes the fact that “books, state and federal archaeological reports, and information passed down by families” can just as well lead to the unearthing of such occurrences in their imperative nature. Although the Patawomeck village sketch was based on archaeological digs, it seems that the rest of the information was dug up by ordinary men with a sense of simple determination.
The fact that the Patawomecks (residing in Stafford!) branched such assistance as to help one of the founding colonies in America is something I’m sure, to take pride in—although it seemed to me a bit shocking. Green’s statement, “Jamestown might well have died out. There were only about 30 of them left. They had no food and Powhatan wouldn't give them any," perfectly displays the role the tribe played.
The article also clearly marks the milestone that Americans have achieved in racial/minority integrity (in respect to legalities.) The article speaks of the Racial Integrity Law passed in 1924 and it is contrasted to the break of such biases by such large cultural revivals (which are, of course, assisted by the overturn of the law in 1967.)
I think that the perseverance of individual culture and roots is essential to a stable society and the individualism that shapes everyday America, and that what the Patawomecks are doing with their present-day tribe is certainly an asset to that.
Lastly, the conditions of the Patawomecks’ during colonial times make me think once again to the growing reliance on technological efficiency in contemporary day America. Straw mats?? I was watching something on the History channel about the Zoe tribe and this sort of added more to my knowledge about the differing societies (us vs. tribal ones.)
So, yeah, all in all, it was educational and interesting.
In my opinion, it also is interwoven with the last article that was our assignment. While the last clearly displayed the growing sense efficiency in technology, I think this one exudes the fact that “books, state and federal archaeological reports, and information passed down by families” can just as well lead to the unearthing of such occurrences in their imperative nature. Although the Patawomeck village sketch was based on archaeological digs, it seems that the rest of the information was dug up by ordinary men with a sense of simple determination.
The fact that the Patawomecks (residing in Stafford!) branched such assistance as to help one of the founding colonies in America is something I’m sure, to take pride in—although it seemed to me a bit shocking. Green’s statement, “Jamestown might well have died out. There were only about 30 of them left. They had no food and Powhatan wouldn't give them any," perfectly displays the role the tribe played.
The article also clearly marks the milestone that Americans have achieved in racial/minority integrity (in respect to legalities.) The article speaks of the Racial Integrity Law passed in 1924 and it is contrasted to the break of such biases by such large cultural revivals (which are, of course, assisted by the overturn of the law in 1967.)
I think that the perseverance of individual culture and roots is essential to a stable society and the individualism that shapes everyday America, and that what the Patawomecks are doing with their present-day tribe is certainly an asset to that.
Lastly, the conditions of the Patawomecks’ during colonial times make me think once again to the growing reliance on technological efficiency in contemporary day America. Straw mats?? I was watching something on the History channel about the Zoe tribe and this sort of added more to my knowledge about the differing societies (us vs. tribal ones.)
So, yeah, all in all, it was educational and interesting.
posted by Raina | 9:32 PM
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Yeah...the two articles do focus on the same type of discoveries. The first article we read said of how facts were unearthed from the use of technology. This article, however, tells us that history was passed down from family to family. Both articles did reveal some surprising facts.
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