The inconvenient indian6/11/2023 ![]() King explores the construction of race and how negative stereotypes that depicted Indians as uncivilized, godless savages influenced the U.S. King uses this story as a launch point to explore other popular but likely fictitious myths about early Indian-White relations, such as Pocahontas saving John Smith and George Custer going down in history as a hero.Ĭhapter 2 focuses on the origins of White-Indian relations in North America. He portrays history not as an objective set of facts but as a culmination of the “stories we tell about the past.” He asks the reader to “forget Columbus” and begins his account elsewhere, with the description of a plaque in a small town in Idaho that purports to commemorate an Indian massacre of White pioneers that never actually took place. King laments the difficulty of beginning a history of Indian-White relations in North America without talking about Christopher Columbus. ![]() He also says that throughout the book he will be using “Indians” for Native Americans and “Whites” for white settlers.Ĭhapter 1 explores the concept of constructing a history and the impossibility of presenting a completely neutral account of the past. ![]() In the Prologue to The Inconvenient Indian, Thomas King explains his use of fiction and nonfiction to tell the history of relations between Native Americans and white settlers in North America. ![]()
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