Journals!

         This past week we have been reading different accounts of discoveries of the new world.  They all came from different writers that were expressing how the first settlements were.  Some were primary sources, like John Smith's journal, but others were secondary sources, like the video "Nightmare in Jamestown."  They all may be from vastly different authors, but they are all very much alike.  Especially in the bias views they all had.  They all described the Native Americans in negative ways, even the National Geographic movie did this! I thought that it was kinda ridiculous that they had barely even interacted with these people yet they were calling them salvages and barbarians.  They had already had these misconceptions about the Native Americans before they had even met them for themselves.  I believe that there were many misconceptions and bias views in all the journals and the video.  I believe that people, especially National Geographic, should just say what happened so we actually know the truth about history instead of just exaggerating things to make a good story.