I believe that Black Elk Speaks provides what was an almost forgotten voice in the history of the United States' expansion westward.
As we discussed in class today (and it's in one of the Prefaces), when Black Elk Speaks was redicovered by readers, it provided a starting place for many American Indians who had forgotten their culture. If its message fails to live up to the expectations of more modern readers like us (which it doesn't for me, at least), at least it helped an entire culture rediscover their roots.
Opal, Nice start. Why do you qualify the claim as your belief? How do the verb tenses work together in that sentence? Lots of additional questions spring from your sentence which suggests that you could generate an essay from this beginning. LDL
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