Thanks for such productive discussions and questions this week, everyone. As I mentioned on Monday, I think that there are several relatively obvious themes overlapping between your projects, and a couple of topics that you could all usefully incorporate more into your project proposals/contracts as you start to get them finalized.

To turn this into a quick list, firstly with the themes that came up in class discussion:

• Self-government and governmental control
• Inclusion or exclusion under the law
• Access to and control of natural resources
• Economic opportunity
• Cultural identity
• Relations with the federal government

Areas that you might like to focus particular research, as a means of adding more wide interest to your website projects:

• Individual leaders
  • Where did they come from?
  • Why did they identify with their movement?
  • How long/how intensely did their involvement last?
• Iconography of the movement
• Geographical dimensions and claims

I’m really looking forward to seeing you flesh out the projects as you develop your contracts – do remember to check out http://course.centuryamerica.org to see what previous project contracts have looked like. Best of luck!