Native Americans and Colonial America

    Reading Response on William Cronon's "A world of fields and fences". Write a 2 page response to the prompt analyzing the reading, 1.5 spacing. Prompt: In his essay “A world of fields and fences,” William Cronon describes how New England colonists used fences to bound their property. He argues that these fences highlight differences between Native American and colonial ideas about and practices of landuse and resource management. He states that “fences marked off, not only the map of a settlement’s property rights, but its economic activities and ecological relationships as well.” Explain why this was so, giving one example of how fences symbolized different ideas about the nature of property and one example of how they reflected different uses of the land by Native Americans and colonists.