In this weeks reading, I found myself extremely interested in John Rollin Ridge. I decided to start the search with his name. My first search led me to his history (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rollin_Ridge). I found that his Cherokee name is: Cheesquatalawny, or Yellow Bird. He was a part of the Cherokee Nation. This led me to look into the Cherokee Nation. I clicked on the internal link (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee_Nation_(1794–1907)) which explained that the Cherokee Nation ran from 1794-1907. It was a legal autonomous, tribal government in North America. It also spoke about the Cherokee-American wars. So my last internal link (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee–American_wars) explained that the Cherokee-American wars, also known as Chickamauga Wars, were a series of back-to-forth raids, ambushes and campaigns in the Old Southwest from 1776-1795 and that most events took place in the Upper South.
Fred Moten Born in 1962 and raised in Las Vegas Focuses on black studies, poetry, and critical theory The Salve Trade The poem of Fred Moten is hard to understand, the reader should look at it in a different way. This poem is about the idea of the slave trade and Fred Moten just rearrange the letters and come up with slave trade. The poem also uses the technique it which it jumps from thoughts to thoughts which makes it interesting to read because it does not really show what the real issue it discusses. There are also a lot of things that occur in the poem which makes it really hard to understand the poem. It mostly shows the idea of black people which was not directly quoted but Moten uses the phrase “I started reading my paper and ash flew from their big ol’” which describe the skin color of the black people.
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