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Return of the Native: Some Reflexions on the History of American Indians

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 January 2009

Christine Bolt
Affiliation:
University of Kent at Canterbury

Extract

Indian activists have recently complained about the pernicious attentions of white Indian ‘experts’, but they are likely to endure these attentions so long as their people retain a distinct cultural identity and national status. Unlike anthropologists and administrators, historians have not shaped the public policies applied to the native Americans, and so their expertise has seemed comparatively harmless. Yet having played a considerable part in misrepresenting the Indians, scholars have a duty to set the record straight with a minimum of unprofessional moralizing.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1974

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