How was the conflickts between homesteaders and american indians resolved in the wake of the homestead act

Read the excerpt from "how i learned english.” and that was important, as important as joe barone asking me how i was through his tears, picking me up and dusting me off with hands like swatters, what does the imagery in the excerpt best readers picture? the awful stinging sensation of being dusted off the quick slapping motion of joe’s hands how roughly the speaker is pulled off the ground how loud and hard joe is laughing

Based solely on their titles, which contemporary novel most likely contains a mythological element that is also found in “cruel tribute? ”

How does this image the reader to understand seismographs?