What was interesting or unusual about the social organization and/or material culture of this group before contact?
2. Explore first contacts with Europeans and subsequent contacts. What changed, how, and how quickly? Were contacts friendly, aggressive, or a mixture? What did your group gain and lose through contact in terms of social organization and material culture? 3. What have been the longterm effects of contact for this group? What attempts are currently being made to recover or re-instill cultural practices? How are descendents of this group in Africa or the Americas currently organized, and what are current problems, issues, and successes of this group? (Note: don’t use contemporary African-Americans here; please go to contemporary Africa for this answer.) Step one: picking a topic. I will hold you to your topic once you turn it in. The criteria for a good topic are that it 1. be of interest to you. 2. be possible to research, and 3. involve a group impacted by contact with Europeans in the Americas or Africa. That part’s important! When you have a topic, check it with me. I might be able t
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