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....tten by Jane Tompkins, a professor of English at Duke University, outlines Tompkins dissatisfaction on how American Indians are portrayed throughout history. As children, we are taught that in “1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue”, and that Peter Minuet bought all of Manhattan Island from the Indians for o.... Part 2 of Paper
....ough by the observer’s frame of reference, then one will never know, in any given case, what really happened,” (Tompkins, 410).
Tompkins researched several historians’ works, and in her research, she identified several problems in the interpretive practices of these historians. Tompkins began her research of the misrepresentation of American Indians with Perry Miller’s book Errand into the Wilderness. In his book, Miller writes, “the massive narrative of the movem.... |
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