Journal: imagine that you are present in the west indies,/English
Choose one of these and write your response in your journal. (At least 1 page long):
Journal: Imagine that you are present in the West Indies, Virginia, or Canada when Europeans first land in the area and come into contact with the Native Americans who live there. Write your own account of the contact experience from the perspective of either a European colonizer or an Indian.
Doing History: Using a dictionary of Aztec pictographic and phonetic symbols or Donald Robertson’s Mexican Manuscript Painting of the Early Colonial Period, interpret one of the pieces of pictorial writing in the archive. How does this form of storytelling differ from that Western historiography?
