DISCUSSION: The first paragraph shows the main point. U.S. court cases involving Native Americans show a clash of values.
The Mashpee are an example of a clash of values. For the Mashpee, their oral history was truth. For the U.S. court, it was just unreliable oral evidence.
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- Lines 53-56 show that U.S. courts are beginning to recognize oral testimony.
- In lines 34-36, the author implied that the Mashpee were a tribe according to an existing definition.
- CORRECT. Lines 12-15 say this. The Mashpee are just an extended example that demonstrates the situation described in the first paragraph.
- As far as we know, U.S. courts never claimed that they would accept oral history as evidence.
- It wasn’t precedent that doomed the Mashpee’s case. It was the court’s refusal to listen to oral evidence.
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