Select one of the following questions and develop an essay of approximately one and a half double-spaced pages. Use specific details, but you do not need to cite extensively from the text. (50 points)
1. Using from Sand Creek analyze the depiction of non-Native characters and their understanding or misunderstanding of Native people and culture.
2. Discuss one author's representation of resilience, endurance, and cultural survival.
3. Using one author's text as your basis, analyze how minor characters are used to develop and enhance plots or themes involving major characters.
4. Using this imperative phrase from Tapahonso's work, "remember the things they told us," explore how two different poems explore the importance of tradition and cultural values.
5. Using one author's text, explore how "witnessing" and the notion of "testimony" is a useful framework for interpreting a situation, a character, or to understanding the relationship of reader to represented event.