Dec 25, 2009

Indians | Indians

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Author: Arthur Kopit
First Published: 1969
Type of Work: Play
Type of Plot: Protest
Time of Work: The second half of the nineteenth century
Setting: The Wild West and Washington, D.C.
Genres: Social realism, Drama, Problem play, Absurdist literature, History play
Subjects: Racism, Nineteenth century, Betrayal, West, U.S., Native Americans or American Indians, Washington, D.C., Politicians
Locales: Washington, D.C., West (U.S.)

Characters Discussed

Buffalo Bill Cody, a boasting Wild West hero and performer in florid buckskin clothes. At times presenting himself as the friend of the American Indians and at other times proudly telling about his killing of Indians and of buffalo, he is an unstable character. Buffalo Bill fails both to bring the Ol’ Time President to Sitting Bull’s Indian reservation and to enhance mutual understanding between Sitting Bull and the senators. He experiences feelings of guilt for having shot so many buffalo and for having deprived the Indians of their traditional way of...

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Indians | Indians

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Characters Discussed

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