1. Presentations
2. Rhetorical analysis (Bizzell and/or Hudson). work in pairs to write a short, focused rhetorical analysis (can be comparative or just focus on one).
3. Discussion questions.
Links related to Cherokee removal:
1. Cherokee Newspaper archives: http://www.wcu.edu/library/DigitalCollections/CherokeePhoenix/
Indian Removal Act of 1830 aka Trail of Tears: http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/Indian.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2959.html http://www.cherokee.org/AboutTheNation/History/TrailofTears/ABriefHistoryoftheTrailofTears.aspx
Emerson's letter about the Indian Removal Act: http://www.cherokee.org/AboutTheNation/History/TrailofTears/RalphWaldoEmersonsLetter.aspx
4,000 Cherokees died on the Trail of Tears
http://cherokeeregistry.com/Elias_Boudinot.pdf
William Apess's autobiography:https://archive.org/details/sonofforestexper00inapes
Apess and some biographical information http://nativeamericanwriters.com/apess.html
text of "An Indian's Looking Glass for the White Man" http://coursesite.uhcl.edu/HSH/Whitec/texts/Amerind/apesslkggls.htm
"Eulogy on King Philip" http://voicesofdemocracy.umd.edu/apess-eulogy-speech-text/
Discussion Questions:
Hudson mentions that the Cherokee Constitution of 1827 was molded after the United States Constitution. Do you think this was a Cherokee effort to blend “Native” and “White” rhetoric to make it more appealing/credible to European-Americans, or were the Cherokees generally in favor of a Democratic-Republic type government? (Ethan)
Put yourself in these rhetorician’s shoes. Do you think you would speak more in a manner reflective of Red Jacket or Apess? Why or why not? What are each of the speaker’s strong points and what are their weak areas? Who ultimately helps the Nat. Amer. peoples more through their rhetorical language? (Zack)
In reference to Peyer’s definition of “transcultural individual”, Pratt’s concept of “contact zone” (34), and Lyons’ theory of “mixedblood rhetoric”: How would you define yourself? Where do you draw your own lines? Where are the lines that have been drawn for you? How much of your own identity is your own? How does knowing these things help you define your own rhetoric? (Catlin)