Killing the White Man's Indian: Reinventing Native Americans at the End of the Twentieth Century

By Fergus M. Bordewich.

Killing the White Man's Indian: Reinventing Native Americans at the End of the Twentieth Century

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In the face of a new lightly romanticized view of Native Americans, Killing the White Man's Indian bravely confronts the current myths and often contradictory realities of tribal life today. Following two centuries of broken treaties and virtual government extermination of the "savage redmen," Americans today have recast Native Americans into another, equally stereotyped role, that of eternal victims, politically powerless and weakened by poverty and alcoholism, yet whose spiritual ties with the natural world form our last, best hope of salvaging our natural environment and e...

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0385420366, 9780385420365

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