Look at the painting below (Figure 1) and recall how in Week 1 wediscussed the i

Look at the painting below (Figure 1) and recall how in Week 1 wediscussed the ideas of perception and stereotypes when Columbus encountered Native peoples. In one and a half to (1 ½ -2) two pages, discuss the interactions between Native and European peoples: What kind of interactions did they have? What perceptions were noted (using the sources below Figure 1, Chapter 1 and 2 in your textbook, lecture information and sources within the book)? How are the native people being portrayed in Figure 1? The Europeans? How could Figure 1, and others like it, influence people’s perceptions or expectations of native peoples? **BONUS: Separate from the questions above, include another small paragraph or so and answer this—do modern perceptions and stereotypes still exist? Can you find an example-and include a picture/image? Why do YOU think these exist? Or why are they still commonplace? (offer of 15 points available for including this Bonus AFTER your initial essay is complete)**
Use ONLY the sources provided (have to use AT LEAST one, but can use all!): your textbook and the items found below. Make sure to cite your sources! If you have questions on citations, see my video talking about sources, citations, and MLA formatted papers and the “Cheat Sheet for Awesome Papers” file on Canvas under the Paper Pointers module. Please be sure and use MLA format (12pt font, Times New Roman, double spaced)
Figure 1 (Note: When citing, please just label this as Figure 1 in your paper.)
Sources to Utilize:
One of the earliest sources, written in 1493, concerns Columbus and his “Meaning of America”. The document can be found via this link:”The Meaning of America”-Christopher Columbus, 1493.
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=57
In paper citation: (Columbus 1493)
MLA Citation on Works Cited page: Columbus, Christopher. “The Meaning of America”. Letters to the sovereigns on his first voyage. 15 Feb. to 4 March 1493.
Document #1: Micmac Chief’s Observations of the French (1691)
Reported by Chrestien Le Clercq, in New Relation of Gaspesia, with the Customs and Religion of the Gaspesian Indians (1691), translated and edited by William F. Ganong(Toronto, 1910), pp. 103–106.
Chrestien Le Clercq was a French priest who traveled among the indigenous peoples near present-day Quebec. A primary purpose of interaction with native peoples was to convert them to Christianity and teach them the “civilized” ways of Europe. The excerpt below is the response of a Micmac (one of the Gaspesian Indians of the title) chief to European arguments of cultural superiority. This type of exchange allows us to glimpse Native American views concerning the Europeans.
I am greatly astonished that the French have so little cleverness, as they seem to exhibit in the matter of which thou hast just told me on their behalf, in the effort to persuade us to convert our poles, our barks, and our wigwams into those houses of stone and of wood which are tall and lofty, according to their account, as these trees. Very well! But why now do men of five to six feet in height need houses which are sixty to eighty?…hast thou as much ingenuity and cleverness as the Indians, who carry their houses and their wigwams with them so they may lodge wheresoever they please, independently of any seignior whatsoever?…Thou sayest of us also that we are the most miserable and most unhappy of all men, living without religion, without manners, without honour, without social order, and, in a word, without any rules, like the beasts in our woods and our forests, lacking bread, wine, and a thousand other comforts which thou hast in superfluity in Europe….I beg thee now to believe that, all miserable as we seem in thine eyes, we consider ourselves nevertheless much happier than thou in this, that we are very content with the little that we have; and believe also once for all, I pray, that thou deceivest thyself greatly if thou thinkest to persuade us that thy country is better than ours. For if France, as thou sayest, is a little terrestrial paradise, art thou sensible to leave it?…Now tell me this one thing, if thou hast any sense: Which of these two is the wisest and happiest—he who labours without ceasing and only obtains, and that with great trouble, enough to live on, or he who rests in comfort and finds all that he needs in the pleasure of hunting and fishing?
Document Sourcing Information: [MLA format] Ganong, William, trans. New Relation of Gaspesia, with Customs and Religion of the Gaspesia Indians [1691]. Toronto: 1910. 103-106. Print.
In paper citation:
(Ganong 103-106)
The document from the first discussion board can also be used as a source, I’ve included that here. It is from the same book as Document 1, so the citations are the same:
Link: https://www.americanyawp.com/reader/colliding-cultures/a-gaspesian-indian-defends-his-way-of-life-1641/