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Response To Jeannette Armstrong History Lesson

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Response to Jeannette Armstrong History Lesson Jeannette Armstrong’s History Lesson is a piece of poetry written in the perspective of First Nations people having first encounters with Europeans. It is clear that throughout her poem, Armstrong illustrates the aggressive arrival of the European settlers and the effects they had at multiple points in history. Being First Nation and living on a First Nation reserve herself, Armstrong has a first-hand experience in the aftermath that early Europeans colonizers had on the people hundreds of years before her. Armstrong uses her poem to emphasize the long lasting negative effects that the early settlers had on the First Nations culture and traditions throughout history. Armstrong narrates the events
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