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Sarah Vowell's Partial Native American Heritage

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Question 1- The connection that Vowell could relate or feel with her partial Native American heritage was that she is proud of her family’s cherokee history. She really sympathized with John Ross- a principal chief during the Trail of Tears- when he was outraged due to the US, betraying “ not only the Cherokee but its own creed”. Once Sarah Vowell heard her “ancestor helped build the columns” she immediately felt “ actual familial connection to the story.”. Question 2-The parts of her self identity, she related to as an American was that she was experiencing the trail of tears not as a Cherokee but as an American. She yet revealed that she admired John Ross but because he believed in the “possibilities of the American Constitution enough

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