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Eeho Journal Diary 1 Name:Mohawk Age:62 Gender:Male Occupation:Angry Old Man, Retired preacher Social Class:Mid Financial situation:Well Off Appearance:Very Handsome Location: (show us on a map) Habitual locations:The Piscataqua River near Dover Daily routine:Being fed my his children, and telling them stories. He's considered very old for his time and is basically waiting to die. Occasionally does a few sermons. Personality/Quirks/Unique Personality Traits:has a lisp. Converted religion during the Great Awakening and changed his named to Jesus. Once he was told that this was a totally inappropriate Biblical name to have, he changed his name back to Mohawk, refusing to take a name from another Biblical figure. His English is not quite as good as other Indians in his church, who are a couple generations removed from assimilating. Generally hates white people. Past/individual-family history:his father hated white people. His children assimilated. Family: 5 children, 25 grandchildren. Social relations with your own and other classes (people you deal with or know about in other classes, AND your opinions and feelings about them): Is accepted by most white people. Religion: Evangelist Education:Good Reader, nearly senile with declining health Portrait: (create or add your own picture) Artwork by Eeho Choi Eeho Journal Diary 2 But the white folks do have a point; they are being treated unfairly. Some of these taxes are very silly, and **the complaints that the white folks have about them not being for the good of people are perfectly valid.** I am happy though, that this really isn’t my generation’s problem. In fact, most of my generation is dead. And if there is one thing I don’t regret about having kids (which I’m not sure there is) it is that they feed me and buy all my stuff. It’s not really my problem. I didn ’ t say anything to the white fols, and I didn ’ t get to have a sermon today. I only do that when the white folks were gone, and they stuck around too long after the first sermon for me to sneak in some stories of the Jesus. I love me some Jesus ||
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 * || [[image:http://c1.wikicdn.com/i/edit.png width="128" height="37" caption="Edit This Page" link="Eeho Journal Diary 2"]]I was at church yesterday and the white folks up front were moaning about all these silly taxes they had to pay. They were trying to use fancy terminology like “taxation without representation” and mentioned some folks I’ve never heard of. I really think they should stick to talking about the Jesus. The whole thing just sounds like war to me. **Remember the last time the English took something from a group of people living in America without permission?** If it ends up like that again, how are they going to know which ones to kill? They all look the same to me.
 * Well anyways, these folks were talking about how they don****’t want to follow the parliament and all that, and as a red man, I want to tell them that my grandpop and great grandpop didn****’t want to do that either. Neither did my great grandma nor my grandma!** I think the English have huge powers. They did bring the Jesus to America after all; maybe the Jesus is on their side.

Eeho Journal Diary 3 media type="custom" key="2068310" letter from Mohawk (Eeho Choi) Diary 4

Dear Paris, I admit that I’ usually not a fan of your writing because your articles tend to be overly patriotic and corny. I did however, very much enjoy your past article on Thomas Paine’s best-selling pamphlet Common Sense. I wish you would move back to New England so I could read your articles better. How was your move to New York? It must have been a long and arduous trip. Best of luck in settling down. I agree on what you wrote about England not being the mother country of America, but as a Native American, I feel like Thomas Paine was being very inclusive when he called Europe the mother nation, completely neglecting the assimilated native American peoples that take place in society. You don’t know me, but I feel compelled to tell you that I’m getting older and that I’m basically sitting around the house waiting to die. This is why I have the time to not only read a New York journal article, but to write to a complete stranger based solely on reading their article. I really hope you write back, because my children never do, and I have nothing to read the whole day. In fact, my eyesight is getting so bad, I can hardly read.

Sincerely, Mohawk.

P.S I can’t complete the crossword. What’s a three letter word for “cat”?

Eeho Choi

Dear Mohawk,

My handwiriting might look unusual but please understand. I never wrote letters this big before. I want to make you feel comfortable reading this letter. You are my first fan after all! To be truthful I do not deserve a title of a journalist. My goal of writing was to earn money to drink in a bar. It is a shame to tell you that, my very first fan. However I am able to confess because I was reborn recently. I started to use my small gift given from God to persuade Americans to stand proudly against British. Although my messages are toward Americans, I never wrote for 'Native' Americans. I agree with you, Native Indians are being ignored. To be honest when I think about the society I'm trying to defend, Indians are not there. No articles or pamphlets ever told me to look after unprevilaged Indians. Wow, it seems like Indians are just out of our concern! Except for the time when we tried to turn the blame to Indians at the Boston Tea Party. I will definitely discuss this in my article. Because I think 'we' are being a 'British' to your group of people. May be I'm the only person who thinks that way these days. Thank you for your support, Mohawk.

Sincerely,

Hilton Paris

Dear Mohawk

How have you been? Hopefully this finds you in good health, considering you're at a very vulnerable stage in life (62 years of age is quite impressive, however).

Anyways, I'm writing because we havn't spoken in a while. Have you been up to date with what's going on these days? Well, just to let you know, in case you don't, the British Parliament decided to tax us on goods such as stamps and sugar. It's outrageous how much I'm paying to send this, so you'd better be reading this real well. What do you think of this issue? As you know, I'm a journalist and I would love to print your opinion. You are/were a very influential preacher, and readers would be excited to read whether you think this is ungodly or acceptable. You can write your ideas and mail it to the return address-I believe I'll be here in Mississippi for a while, unless my boss sends me up to Boston (I was up there a while back and actually ran into a few mutual friends; do you remember Jamal?)

Hopefully you'll reply really soon because I can't wait to get the story going. It'd also be nice if you came to town for a drink. We can catch up on old times.

Sincerely, Silas

P.S. It's sad how you wrote to yourself, my friend. Very sad indeed.

JOURNAL 5 Mr Freeman- I have received a letter from you that is addressed to a person who has the same name as myself. I don't believe that we have ever met, as I have never been outside of New England and you seem to be from the South. I am sorry it has taken me 3 years to send you this reply, but as you know, a lot has happened in the past three years. I am 75 years old now, and I regret to inform you that wherever it was that you found out about my age was not a reliable source of information. War has being strong here in my home state of New Hampshire and it has just been a huge price to pay to get rid of that old Governor Wentworth. I also have no idea who Jamal is. Does he live in South Carolina or something? I have never been there. Thanks Stranger, Mohawk

P.S You must tell me how you so frequently travel between the Missisipi and Boston. That must be exhausting! Why do you do it?

Mr Paris- I am writing to you because it has been three long and tough years since I have last heard from you and I noticed that you are no longer writing. It is a deep concern of mine that you may be hurt or dead like many youngsters today. I have only five more years until the age of eighty and I frankly am not sure if I will survive to see that day. The past three years have been very hard here in New Hampshire, especially for an old man like me. News has come that the New Hampshire Line is defending the border in the best way it can, and many of the people at my church no longer attend. This winter of 1777 may be my last. From that hectic time that people of Boston evacuated to now, nothing much seems to have changed. It has been a year since the government declared independence, but we have not yet seemed to achieve it. And in all this I feel lost and hopeless in the very idea that neither side represents what my freedoms ought to be, and as I age and become useless in the church, my freedoms decrease. I do wish to see this end until the end of it, and best of luck to you, wherever you may be. Sincerely, Mohawk

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