We learned about different types of argumentative techniques, or appeals, when we studied Thomas Paine’s from Common Sense. Read the first paragraph of Last Rites for Indian Dead. What if museums, universities, and government agencies could put your dead relatives on display or keep them in boxes to be cut up and otherwise studied? What if you believed that the spirits of the dead could not rest until their human remains were placed in a sacred area? What type of argument or appeal is Susan Harjo making in this paragraph?
