Should We Celebrate?

Watch the top video posted on the video bar.  Then respond to the following:  What is the connection between this talk and Thanksgiving?  Based on what the speaker Aaron Huey explains, what are we celebrating on Thanksgiving day?  Should we celebrate?  We don't usually think of Native Americans as prisoners of war.   Why does Aaron Huey rename reservations as Prisoner of War Camps?  Based on what he said and what you see in his photographs, is that an accurate term to describe Native peoples and the reservations they live in?

Analyzing Characters

McBride writes, "Mommy's contradictions crashed and slammed against one another like bumper cars at Coney Island. White folks, she felt, were implicitly evil toward blacks, yet she forced us to go to white schools to get the best education. Blacks could be trusted more, but anything involving blacks was probably substandard... She was against welfare and never applied for it despite our need, but championed those who availed themselves of it." Do you think these contradictions served to confuse Ruth's children further, or did they somehow contribute to the balanced view of humanity that James McBride possesses?