"All but one person I met who claimed Indian blood claimed it on their grandmother's side. I once did a projection backward and discovered that evidently most tribes were entirely female for the first three hundred years of white occupation."
pickModern plight of the American Indian
We are familiar with much of the story of the American Indian prior the 1890. This is the story where the history books left off. After the American Indian left the stage as part of American Folklore.
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"The American public feels most comfortable with the mythical Indians of stereotype-land who were always THERE. These Indians are fierce, they wear feathers and grunt. Most of us don't fit this idealized figure since we grunt only when overeating, which seldom happens."
Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto | 
