Displacing Indigenous Peoples 

1. Comment on any points of difference between the native peoples of South and North America.

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2. Other than the use of English, what other features of English economic and social life do you notice in nineteenth-century USA?

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3. What did the ‘frontier’ mean to the Americans?

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4. Why was the history of the Australian native peoples left out of history books?

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5. How satisfactory is a museum gallery display in explaining the culture of a people? Give examples from your own experience of a museum.

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6. Imagine an encounter in California in about 1880 between four people: a former African slave, a Chinese labourer, a German who had come out in the Gold Rush, and a native of the Hopi tribe, and narrate their conversation.

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