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

Name: Killing the White Man's Indian Reinventing Native Americans at the End of the Twentieth Century
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ISBN: 9780385420365

ISBN-10: 0385420366

ISBN-13: 9780385420365

Edition: N/A

Authors: Fergus M. Bordewich

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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 ennobling our souls. The truth, however, is neither as grim , nor as blindly idealistic, as many would expect. The…

Book details

List price: $21.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/14/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.23" wide x 8.00" long x 0.88" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English