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Article: Fire-water in the frontier romance: James Fenimore Cooper and "Indian nature." (Native Americans and Euro-American Writers)
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- Studies in American Fiction
- Article date:
- September 22, 1994
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There is something painful in the reflection that these people were once numerous, and that by our approach they have been reduced to a few. It is natural that we should feel averse to the admission that the true causes of their decline are to be found among us. Hence we have sought for the seat of the disease among them ...(1)
Indiana Senator John Tipton, defending before the Senate in 1838 an appropriations bill augumenting federal support for those Native Americans who had recently been removed to "Indian Territory," identified one of the major features of nineteenth-century Euro-American discussions of intercultural relations in America. Many ...