He still describes her actions as "the water coming down her face," instead of crying or "she made a noise that wasn't singing and wasn't crying," for her wincing which shows that he doesn't quite know what she's doing but he seems to know it is significant. ... The dialogue also gives clues about how they culturally live, not so much like Native Americans but more like white men, though the Native American's talk about both with distaste. Although the Native American's live like white men on their plantation, they still hold true to certain rituals when the chi...

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• Grade Level: High School

He is just some white guy that the King of Spain picked to find more about the new world. ... "He was also terrified to learn how the cannon roared, how its noise resounded, how is caused one to faint and grow deaf" (Wheeler, pg 17). ...

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• Grade Level: High School

This man had an idea to create a written language for all Cherokee people to parallel that of the white man. ... His alphabet was much more complex than the English alphabet, with use of 86 symbols which stood for nearly every linguistic noise made by the Cherokee Indians. ...

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