The Actual Democracy

 

Growing up, going to school, my favorite course was American History. At that time, I was not interested in history that was past the 1880’s era. I was mostly interested in 17^th and 18^th century history with a lesser interest in the upper 1800’s. Although I did and still continue to read books from that era as well. I have a great respect for books like “When Buffalo Ran” by George Bird Grinnell, as well as the book “Geronimo” {actual native name Goyahkla},  by Charles Morrow Wilson as well as others. I however like the afore mentioned era’s better. With this in mind, during my formative years in this class, I was taught as most were, that the Iroquois Confederacy, the Hau de no sau nee (ho dee noe sho nee), were a big part to the development of the country that we live in today. However, I didn’t realize how much more instrumental this really was. This governance of this confederacy, was an actual true democracy that is still being taught today. However, the United States cannot state this as being the same. The Iroquois League were so instrumental that they even gave a native name to John Hancock, the president of the U.S. Congress, http://www.ratical.org/many_worlds/6Nations/. I think that I learned something very valuable in that if you go to this site as well as other links associated, you can find some very in-depth aspects of all of these nations that are members of the confederation. I especially like the link that will take you to the Mohawk Nations site, and where there is a very intense effort to teach the Mohawk language to the members. I believe that it would be a shame to lose another language in our society. Think how much we can still learn from the confederation and how much we as a society as a whole can benefit.

Start Blogging

Hello Class,

Some of you may be blogging pros, while I know others are blogging novices.

If you are here, clearly you already read and followed the instructions from Module 1 on blogging. The first assignment states:

Remember, the point of journaling is to convey your ideas about what you are learning, but since you are in an academic format, it should be substantiated by the information that you are exposed to in this course. It does not matter if you like or dislike something; what matters is why you feel the way you do and what lead you in the sources you reviewed to feel that way.

1. Write a 250 word minimum piece of writing that can be used in a blog post. Your writing must document and describe one of the web resources in Module 01 and tell us, the reader what you have learned from it. Do not assume that all of your readers are familiar with the resource. Here is a good link for composing a quality academic journal post: http://faculty.weber.edu/kmackay/academic_journal.htm

So have fun, be creative, load pictures, link important websites. Although this is an academic exercise, I prefer that you explore your creative side, express yourself freely.

Enjoy.

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