For your first group discussion, you will introduce yourself and then discuss week 1 module). Provide your initial answers to the questions by 11:59 pm on Monday, Jan. 22. Then, make sure you reply to at least two of your classmates by the close of the discussion forum at 11:59 pm on Wednesday, Jan. 24. Participation in the discussion is worth up to 25 points.
Answer the following questions to introduce yourself:
- What is your name, major, and hometown?
- Why are you taking this course?
Answer any one out of the two questions about Camilla Townsend, et. al, “I am Old and Weak… and You are Young and Strong: The Intersecting Histories of Rutgers and the Lenni Lenape,” Scarlet and Black Volume 1: Slavery and Dispossession in Rutgers History, chapter 1, pages 6-31. Click here to get the open-access book on JStorLinks to an external site.. You can read the chapter on the JStor website or download it as a PDF. Make sure you cite specific examples from the chapter in your response.
1. What were some of the major ways in which European colonization, trade, warfare, and disease in colonial New Amsterdam and New Jersey changed the lives of the Lenni Lenape peoples in the 1600s and 1700s? How did the Lenni Lenape adapt to these changes?
2. What were the circumstances under which many Lenni Lenape ceded or sold their lands to European colonists by the mid-1700s?
I will write the introduce myself.