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1. A PERSONAL
REFLECTION
Lillie Sims, UnEssayAMST 231

2. What did this project accomplish?
■ I used events in the three time periods to confront common misconceptions about
NativeAmericans

3. Misconception:
■ During early interactions with Europeans, Native Americans had nothing to gain

4. Roanoke Interactions with Lane’s Colony
■ Wingina and the Roanoke tried to establish a reciprocal relationship with Lane

5. Things I learned
■ NativeAmericans interacted with Europeans to foster trade alliance and obtain power.
■ NativeAmericans were not passive in their interactions with Europeans, and actually
held the upper hand (demonstrated by knowledge of the land and food supply)

6. Misconception:
■ Before this class, I thought that NativeAmericans were a race of people

7. George Lowry Giving an Oral History of
the Lumbees
■ Ignores outsider labels of race to proclaim a solely Indian

8. Things I learned
■ Membership and enrollment in a tribe is what makes people apart of tribal nations
■ Being apart of the community is important

9. Misconception:
■ Before this class, I did not know what sovereignty looked like

10. The Red Power Movement
■ In 1977 the IITC gained consultative status to a nongovernmental organization
■ NativeActivism accelerated in the 1960s and 1970s to reassert sovereignty

11. Things I learned
■ Sovereignty is Native peoples’ right to govern their own affairs, and is practiced
regardless of recognition by the federal government

12. THANKYOU!