American Indian Literature (Racial and Ethnic Relations in America)
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During the nineteenth century and the early part of the twentieth century, most works dealing with Native Americans were written by whites who visited the reservations and wrote about the people they found there and the stories they heard. These accounts may have led the American public to believe that American Indians were more exotic than they actually were. They offered information about the mythology and spiritual beliefs of Native Americans but did not always accurately portray their everyday life. One writer in the early twentieth century who did present a very...
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