Killing th white man's Indian1996
reinventing Native Americans at the end of the twentieth century
by Fergus M. Bordewich
In the face of the current, highly romanticized view of Native Americans, Killing the White Man's Indian bravely confronts our myths and misconceptions to reveal the realities of tribal life today.
Following two centuries of broken treaties and virtual extermination of the "savage red man," Americans 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 the last, best hope of salvaging our natural environment and ennobling our souls.
What will surprise many Americans, however, is that a virtual revolution is under way in Indian Country, from New England to Florida, and from New York to the Pacific Northwest.
It is an upheaval of epic...