Enthralling generations of readers, the narrative of capture by Native Americans is arguably the first American literary form dominated by the expe...
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Apr 30, 2008
Katy
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From my January 25, 2008 blog http://blogs.sun.com/katysblog/entry/178...
1782 William Crawford, Simon Girty, and History
Last month when I visited Washington, D.C. for the first time in many decades, I toured the National Museum of the American Indian, opened as part of the Smithsonian Institution in 2004. It seemed to me that one way of understanding more about the complex relationship between the European/American cultures and the American Indian cultures was to read repo More...
1782 William Crawford, Simon Girty, and History
Last month when I visited Washington, D.C. for the first time in many decades, I toured the National Museum of the American Indian, opened as part of the Smithsonian Institution in 2004. It seemed to me that one way of understanding more about the complex relationship between the European/American cultures and the American Indian cultures was to read repo More...
Oct 04, 2009
Kristen
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Fascinating, but very dry. I found it much more enjoyable to read when I read the actual narratives first, and THEN went back and read the scholarly commentary that preceded each story. Overall, it was so interesting to see the settling of the American continent from a perspective I haven't heard. I read the official bits in history books, was taught the California PC version of our horrible cruelty to the Native Americans, but this was the first time I heard from the settlers themselves and
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