The Philistine's Plea

[sam_gunn]

Samson Lahti-Parsell
Professor Miller
English 324
April 20th, 2008

The Philistine’s Plea:
Escaping the theoretical construction of Native American cultures

The murder of Native Americans was systematic and uniform from coast to coast. They were hung, burned, tortured, hunted, shot, starved, and broken by any means necessary, in a manner which

Comments

[alkeline]

I don't mean to sound like a prick (and I think this question is very characteristic of my nature of preferring experience over academia) but did you get all of this from books, or did you actually spend time on a reservation?

this question is not meant with any ill will, but rather as a stimulus for future conversation. Having spent a LOT of time on the Cherokee reservation of North Carolina and doing my own share of research (as well as learning the culture from some of the elders of the tribe) i feel that SOME (very little in fact) of your presumptions are inaccurate. Namely those of culture of the Native Tribes themselves and the lumping generalizations that seem to have been made in your essay.
I could be wrong, of course. It's happened before.
I'd like to speak with you about those topics, but certainly not here.

[sam_gunn]

Yea. I read I guy named Cheyfitz (obviously), who made some really good arguments about how the law was used to remove land from Native americans. I have to admit there were lumping gernalizations. But my authors did it first! =) If not here then where?

[alkeline]

check your myspace.
we should make plans.

Id love to discuss some things with you over a drink or two (water would be my safest request). you're about the only one speaking politically that I can still stomach these days.