Discussion Topic This unit covers the removal of Native American tribes to Indian Territory. Today, we
judge the methods used by the US government harshly, believing that the forced
relocation of these tribes was wrong. Some historians believe that using present-day
ideas about right and wrong to judge the past makes it more difficult to understand
history. This idea is known as presentism.
What do you think? Do you agree that the values of today can't be compared with the
values from another era? Or do you think that what is right and wrong today still applies
to the actions of people in history?

Anagnos: . . it will no doubt be difficult for you there, annie. but it has been difficult for you at our school too, hm? gratifying, yes, when you came to us and could not spell your name, to accomplish so much here in a few years, but always an irish battle. for independence. (he studies annie, humorously; she does not open her eyes.) this is my last time to counsel you, annie, and you do lack some – by some i mean all – what, tact or talent to bend. to others. and what had saved you on more than one occasion here at perkins is that there was nowhere to expel you to. what do anagnos's words reveal about annie in this excerpt