2. What refers to the crime of falsely making or altering a writing by which the legal rights or obligations of another person are apparently affected?

3. The Indian Nonintercourse Act declared that all Indian land deals were invalid unless they occurred with what?

4. In Chapter 3, Penobscot recounted his part in the negotiations, in which he never stated anything about handing over land but only that he wished for what?

5. The first text in Chapter 4 is from what year, when a governor of New France traveled to Iroquois country to try to bluff his way to making the Iroquois stop trading with the English?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is berated in a speech by Atiwaneto in Chapter 4? Why?

2. How does the author describe the many land deeds in colonial America in Chapter 3?

3. How were the Cherokee Indians impacted by the American Revolution? What rift took place amongst the tribe?

4. Describe the Walking Purchase of 1737. Who was affected by this deal?

5. What did the Native Americans feel about the French and Indian War? What is revealed in a 1758 speech about the war in Chapter 4?

6. What text in Chapter 4 describes the motivations of the French to the Iroquois? What is the response to this text?

7. What was the subject of the speech by the Oneida Indians in Chapter 5? What was the outcome for these people in the war?

8. What was the subject of Gachadow's speech in Chapter 4? What is represented in this text?

9. What did Minavavana reject in his speech in Chapter 4? When was this speech given?

10. What was the Native American response to the Peace of Paris? Why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze and discuss the narrative structure, symbolism and themes in Josiah Jeremy's narrative of the arrival of European missionaries. How is color used symbolically in the story?