Firsting & Lasting- Intro and Chapter 1

What does "firsting" refer to?

• Native Americans being recognized as the first inhabitants of an area

• There is no such concept as "firsting"

• The assertion that non-Indians were the first people to erect proper institutions of a worthy social order and that authentic history begins with the arrival of English people

What was the narrative that many authors in Southern New England wrote about?

• Indians lived just like the settlers in the modern world

• Indians dominated society at the time

• Indians were vanishing, non-Indians were the only ones to live with modernity,

• Indians living peacefully alongside non-Indians

True or false: Non-Indians acknowledged that they had neighbors of Indian descent but still denied that they were authentic Indians

• True

• False

True or false: Non-Indians believed that it was "just property transactions" and "righteous relations" between Indians and non-Indians that led to the lamentable Indian extinction

• True

• False

How did Non-Indians stake a claim to being indigenous inhabitants of the land (the first people of the land)?

• The Indians willingly gave away their rights to the land

• The Indians all mysteriously vanished and got extinct

• They claimed that the last of the Indians passed due to not being able to adapt to the modern world proving that colonists should be considered first because of their "superior civilization" and history

• There were no Indians living in the area which makes the settlers the first

True or false: New England Indians went extinct and their culture remains no more in the modern world

• True

• False

How did officials in Rhode Island commit documentary genocide against Indians?

• They secretly changed the names of Indian tribes so that the real names would be forgotten forever

• They wrote in official documents that the Indians moved away to a different state

• They identified them as 'negro' or 'black' in documents thus forging an official story that the Nipmuc people vanished

True or false: The government used ideas about blood purity and the "supposed degeneration of Indians as a result of mixed ancestry" as a tactic of control to further push the claim that true Indians were going extinct

• True

• False

True or false: The disappearance of Native people is inevitable, natural, and bound to happen since they can't adapt to modernity

• True

• False

True or False: New England created a narrative where they brought civilized order and math, science, and reason to replace the culture of uncivilized people which was rooted in nature and superstition

• true

• false