On 4/12/02 11:33:00 AM, Sandra Scott wrote:
>In Tompkin's conclusion she
>realizes that she has to make
>her best assumption
>concerning European-Indian
>relations by looking at other
>people's perspective
>stories. She goes on to
>explain that by doing this we
>never find the answers to very
>important times in history.
>She recognizes that the
>debated subject (Indians) has
>changed and her new question
>is how knowledge is arrived
>at. Tompkin's moral
>problem now is the fact that
>her work, "is not directed
>toward solving the kinds of
>problems that studying the
>history of European-Indian
>relations has awakened me


sandra i think your last qupot really pu the nail in the coffin of THompkin's thought pattern. she had moved from one path but was lead to another...maybe that was her ideea along. to search for the truth somtimes you will find it wher you leat expect it.