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Due Friday:
Crooked River Assignment #6 -- posted below

Due Monday Dec. 2:
Illustrations for 4 four sections of the River Story: Geology, Natural History, Native Americans, Settlers

Crooked River  Assignment #6               Due: Friday, November 22

Read pages 161-190 (Chapters 28-33)

Choose 2 of the following questions to answer and you must answer the Discussion question; this should be done on a separate sheet of paper or in your reading notebook.  Answers turned in on this slip of paper will not be accepted.

·          Please include specific evidence from the book in each response.  For example: ‘Ten Claw’s death is suspicious for a number of reasons.  One is that Pa accused him of shooting himself while he was running, which could be very difficult, and as Indian John says, “Even Ten Claws does not run slow enough to shoot himself with his own gun.”…’

·         You may not begin a sentence with ‘because’. J

Questions:

1. In Chapter 28, what is Peter Kelley trying to prove about believing physical evidence?
2. According to Amik’s passages, who started the conflict?  What did the trappers do?
3. On page 179, what does Amik mean when he says that watching the jury is like watching a game?
4. How do you feel after reading about the jury’s verdict and sentence in Chapter 32?  Why?
5. What would you have done differently if you were Peter Kelley?
6. Amik says that he understands ‘death’, but he doesn’t understand ‘guilty’.  What do you think he means?

Discussion:  On page 173, Amik says that the river was left to the Indians by their ancestors “many strings of lives ago”.  Who should decide who uses the land and waterways?  Were the trappers right or wrong to trespass?  Were the settlers right or wrong to settle on Indian lands?