As a future teacher, most of the time I feel a mixture of empowered and overwhelmed when I think about teaching history content specifically, and this class is continuing those feelings. It is so frustrating to think about my own education, and usually many of my peers, and realize how miss-informed most of us are, especially about Indigenous Peoples. Like everyone has said, I am already very interested in what we have learned in just two days. The canal systems of the Hohokam are so amazing to me. I have a lot of questions about this tribe after hearing an overview of their accomplishments. Mainly, what was the building process of the canals? I wonder how exactly they came up with this building process and applied it so well to meet all of their farming needs. I also wonder if these canal systems influenced any other tribes, or if the canals were unique to the Hohokam.
At the same time, I am interested in all of the so-called stories of "collapse". I felt really disappointed to hear that for my whole life I have lived so close to an ancient civilization in the Cahokia and never known anything about it. Mainly, I am really interested in learning about what happened when this tribe dispersed and in turn transformed into several other tribes like the Osage, Omaha, and numerous others. I would think that if they dispersed, people would stay true to their original ideals and practices, but obviously that is not always the case. How did these "new" tribes come to be? Were there existing tribes that simply welcomed new people and the two melded together? Or did each group simply modify to their new surroundings and create their own set of belief systems? I can't help but compare this situation to refugees around the world (which may be totally off base) and I wonder if they did combine with existing groups, how successful that transition was...
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I like to think about it like this, eheldstab. If I am today, living in Lawrence and decided that this is not working out for me, how exactly would my moving play out? More than likely I would move to another city. Maybe I married someone from another city and she's real connected to her family, plus her home city is thriving better than mine at the moment. So I move there. Or me, my family, and my friends have been talking amongst ourselves about how poorly our city is progressing. So me, my family, my friends, and my friends families decide to leave and go live somewhere else. There's a good 20 to 30 of us in this group, and that is enough to hunt, agricult, and make babies! I imagine that the indians dispersing happened in any of these ways. I doubt it was one huge communal dispersement, I imagine bands just slowly began to break off. And when some people left others would ask if they could tag along. There may have been some mutiny as well. And once a chief or elite is out of power, there's noone to hold everyone together. Now, I could be wrong on all of these accounts. These are just my thoughts.
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