Read the two passages from Pushing the Bear. Passage 1: KNOBOWTEE Why was O-ga-na-ya talking about court decisions? Did he think we were in the council house back in New Echota, Georgia? What did it matter now? "Mackintosh," a friend of mine answered. ''Yo," my brother agreed. "Because Marshall in the Supreme Court went back to the beginning. He talked about the doctrine of discovery. U.S. discovery and conquest. Then the government is sovereign. Indians can only sell to the government." "So what do you do with Indians living on that discovered land?" I asked bitterly, looking at one man already asleep under a wagon. "They called us savages without rights of our own." Some of the men eyed the woods as we talked. But how far could we run? How could our families follow? "Call us unchristian so it's even easier to take our land," a friend offered. "How else could Marshall have settled it?" O-ga-na-ya wiped his face with the hem of his shirt. "If he argued for the Indian, the government would be undermined. Marshall knew it opposed natural right, yet he did it anyway." Passage 2: REVEREND BUSHYHEAD "We aren't spared by the harvest of our hands but by the blood of Jesus." My words seemed to fly back in my face as I talked to the men. "Something will happen to change what's happening. Something will—" The wind seemed to pick up the corners of the afternoon and turn it into dark as we finished our walking that day. The voices high in the trees hissed. I thought I heard my cabin door slam. Sometimes the trees seemed to pound themselves against the ground in a fit of anger. If only the soldiers could hear the woods speak. Someone called. A Cherokee had shot himself in the head. I went to the group that surrounded the man. I told some of them to gather the wood they needed for supper and for fires that night. I told others to help bury the man. Then I read a scripture at the mound of dirt by the new grave. Was it only a few nights ago I woke in my bed and felt doubt lapping my faith? Now I made camp along t