History Textbook shaping the way of seeing Native Americans

This online textbook put the Native Americans in a bad light. From looking at different text through out this history book the Native American came across very hostile to the white settlers, but in the textbook they were sure to say "Again the savages were pursued without mercy." (pg.32). This quote was found in different parts of the textbook but in different wording. When looking up the word "savages" many text around the word was about how the indians killed some white people. This would shape my view point of Native Americans by thinking they were all very hostile and vengeful, even though I'm sure there are some peaceful tribes.

Indians in the Newspaper

I found in one of the newspaper articles, Los Angles Daily Gerald, was talking about how Major Kress found hostile indians moving large number of horse across the river, and some of the horse returned to the Oregon side of the river. Then Major Kress destroyed the indians camp. When writing about what Major Kress did the wording made him sound like a knight in shining armor. By saying "hostile" indians made the indians sound dangerous, but throughout that story it never said what the indians did. Did they attack? At the end of the article they writers made sure to say "Scouts are out" to give the read a sense of security that they are safe.

Dear Diary,
It's July 9, 1878. I was reading the Los Angles Daily Gerald. Oh my goodness, article after article talking about the hostile Indians. One was that the Indians attacked Captain Sperry and his company while they were eating lunch! How awful is that, you know just sitting there eating your lunch and BAM! You are under attack!!!! They fought them twice in one day. Once when the Indians surprised attacked them and again while they were heading to Pendleton. How awful!! Theses Indians are out of control, but good thing is in another article they said they had some scouts out watching the indians. So that's good we are safe from the hostile indians. Beside from the Indians I saw a advertisement for a new shoe and boot place!! Yay! It's on main street, I am actually going to head down there now and scout out there shoes, and to see if they have anything cute!

Deep Thinking

"Our use of social media for news is selective and intentional so that we may tend to remain interested only in things we are already interested in. On the other hand professional news outlets, like newspapers, expose readers to information on a broad range of topics, this helps me to see what other people are interested or things are important."

Newspaper homework

3. Newspaper is a type of paper that is published daily, weekly, or monthly. It contains news, advertisement, and features.

4. The earliest newspaper was dated to the 17th century in Europe.

5.  Some of the oldest newspapers in the United States are The Boston Chronicle, The Augusta Chronicle, Daily Hampshire Gazette, Pittsburg Post-Gazette, and The Recorder.

6. The leading stories on the New York Times are Afghan ISIS Branch Makes Inroads in Fight Against Taliban,  Jet Inquiry Blames Russian-Made Missile, Election 2016: Democratic Debate Will Reveal Divides, if Not Gaps, and Four Attacks by Palestinians Kill at Least Three Israelis.

7. A newspaper of record is a big newspaper company that has great resources in finding information and is consider a professional newspaper. The New York Times was the nation's newspaper of record in 1913. It was the first newspaper to publish an index. Other newspaper such as the Los Angles Times, and The Washington Post can be considered newspapers of record.

8. A newspaper and social media is a way to learn about recent news and stay informed with current events. A newspaper is different from social media by the writers and editors do their research to make sure their facts are correct. While, in social media you are getting current news some of the news may be false and inaccurate. Social media is a way to see what your friends are doing and whats happing in the world, but this does not mean all the news you read or hear is not entirely or completely accurate. If you do gets news from social media it would be best to double check your sources to make sure you are not spreading false news. A newspaper is a much better a reliable way to get up to date or current events with reliable sources. The actual paper newspaper maybe a day or so behind on the recent events, but now there is newspaper published online daily. 7

9. New York Tribune

US History First quarter reflections

In this first quarter of history I’ve learned a lot of important tools and about the American Civil War. I think learning how to paraphrase and use quotation appropriately will help me in this class and many other classes. Going “deeper” into the Civil War opened my eyes the true but horrifying facts that acutely happened. When I was younger, the teachers only showed us half the pictures of what slavery was like, but learning the hard but true facts really opened my eyes. The movies we watch in class about slavery and the Civil War are great movies and shows the truth about slavery. Also reading about the far west was really interesting. Learning about how cowboys were acutely not the heroes and wild guys how the movies and books portrayed them to be.

I do find history extremely interesting to learn about. History also taught me this first quarter how empathy and sympathy are actually very helpful critically thinking parts and how they really do apply to history. By understanding empathy and sympathy on some level it helps you understand history better and understanding of what people, in whatever time period the people are in, are going through. I hope to learn next in history is more about Americas involvement in the World Wars. The World Wars really interest me and I think it will be cool to learn more about America’s involvement more in depth.