Blog 3

Pamela Daher
2-1-07
ED 350
Professor Shutkin
Blog Three
The National Museum of the American Indian and the article written by Howard Zinn are related because thy both told the story from the Native Americans point of view. Both articles shared the common ideas of ideology, sentiment, and historiography. In both articles, the ideas of ideology were similar because they both discussed the struggles the Native Americans faced when the English invaded their land. In both articles, they discussed that the Native Americans allowed the English to live on their land, however the English thought the Native Americans were naïve and thought they had the right to own the land. Both articles discussed that the English killed many Native Americans and treated them badly. The ideas of sentiment were similar in both articles because they both included all the sad stories that the English did to the Native Americans. They both expressed all the suffering the Native Americans faced during this war and how badly the English treated them. The ideas of historiography were related in both stories because they both told the history in the same time period and included stories on the same characters such as Powhatan. Overall, both stories were related because they told the history from the Native Americans perspective.