宜立特大学英语1Unit8-2TextA教程.ppt

;1. How do Hollywood westerns color American people’s impression of the western expansion?;;The text is made up of three parts. Try to give each part a heading. The first has been given.;The Wild West’s Legacy of Shame ; (2) In the early days of settlement along the Atlantic shore the colonists and the Indians got along together. Their ways of life were different, but there was room for both. The Indians were not unorganized hostile savages. The various tribes were often confederations or nations, and at first, the new settlers treated them as independent powers. But as European settlement gathered momentum, mistrust began to build. It was not long before the newcomers outnumbered the native peoples. In the struggle between the French and the British for control of North America (1689—1763), and in the later Revolutionary War (1776—1787) between the British and the Colonists, the Europeans tried to win the support of the Indians. They became pawns in the white man’s struggle to control North America. Those who found themselves on the losing side suffered reprisals by the victors. By the end of the 18th century, the independence of the United States was established, and George Washington admonished Congress: “We are more enlightened and more powerful than the Indian nations. It behooves our honor to treat them with kindness and even generosity.” ; (3) But that’s not what happened. Might became right, and from the beginning of nationhood of the United States, the native people were exploited, forced from their homelands by the relentless European expansion—usually after signing agreements and treaties they did not really understand. The white man’s concept of land ownership was alien to the Indians. They thought they had agreed to share, only to find that they had signed away the rights to live in their traditional territory.; (4) Eventually, the government decided it would be in everyone’s best interest for the two peoples to live apart. The Indian Remo