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A 4 page overview of the fact that despite the tendency of early historians to skim over details on group distinction among Native Americans, early colonists were very aware of those distinctions. The author reviews Daniel Richter’s “Facing East from Indian Country : A Native History of Early America” and Karen Kupperman’s “Indians and English: Facing Off in Early America” to support this contention. No additional sources are listed.
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one time everything that was written on Native/White relationships about colonial America was written almost solely from the perspective of the former, today many authors have stepped forward with the
recognition that their are two sides (and indeed often many sides) to every story. Many authors from the past simply ignored the Native American perspective. Such authors obviously
assumed that because the Natives peoples that occupied these lands prior to European arrival had no written language there was no documentation of their feelings and thoughts in regard to
colonization. So too do early historians tend to simply lump all Native Americans into one large cultural classification with no real attempt at identification by tribal or political affiliation.
Fortunately that view is slowly beginning to change. Two books in particular stand out in documenting that change and in illustrating that even the early colonist were indeed
very cognizant of the differences which existed between the Native American peoples. They are Daniel Richters "Facing East from Indian Country : A Native History of Early America" and
Karen Kuppermans "Indians and English: Facing Off in Early America". Each of these authors takes a more thorough look at the historical record to present well-documented evidence that
Native Americans did indeed have not only an opinion but an expressed interest in colonial developments. It was an opinion and interest, in fact, which was both noted by
and acted on by the colonists themselves in many instances. As the title of Daniel Richters "Facing East from Indian Country : A
Native History of Early America" suggests, he provides a different perspective of the relationships which unfolded between the Native American inhabitants of this country and the European peoples who invaded
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