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This is a 7 page paper discussing perceptions of the American west and frontier. Perception of historical documentation is presented and argued regarding two aspects. Firstly, whether or not cultural perspective should be included in historical accounts such as argued by Jane Tompkins or whether or not cultural beliefs, and indeed the perspective of the Native Americans, should be ignored in regards to the documentation of history and history should just relate to the major chronological events as postulated by Frederick Jackson Turner. Secondly, contemporary historians such as Patricia Limerick and Eric Gary Anderson have changed the sequential historical paradigms used by Turneresque historians and instead used the writings of N. Scott Momaday and Leslie Silko among others to develop models of the Southwest which overlap and intersect different multicultural components found in order to provide nonsequential paradigms where time, space, frontiers, and crossings are boundless and in addition provide present and future existences which show the Euro-American “conquering” and influence on the West as only a small “blip” in regards to overall perception.
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such as argued by Jane Tompkins or whether or not cultural beliefs, and indeed the perspective of the Native Americans, should be ignored in regards to the documentation of history
and history should just relate to the major chronological events as postulated by Frederick Jackson Turner. Secondly, contemporary historians such as Patricia Limerick and Eric Gary Anderson have changed the
sequential historical paradigms used by Turneresque historians and instead used the writings of N. Scott Momaday and Leslie Silko among others to develop models of the Southwest which overlap and
intersect different multicultural components found in order to provide nonsequential paradigms where time, space, frontiers, and crossings are boundless and in addition provide present and future existences which show the
Euro-American "conquering" and influence on the West as only a small "blip" in regards to overall perception. In Jane Tompkins
"Indians: Textualism, Morality, and the Problem of History" published in 1985, she confronts the area of historical confusion based on the perspectives of the Native and the Euro-American encounters. Basically
she find that the problem in exploring the essence of history lies in the fact that "if all accounts of events are determined through and through by the observers frame
of reference, then one will never know, in any given case, what really happened" (Tompkins, Indians, 60; Cochran 69). In this case, all historical references must be taken that they
have a subjective element to them and in none of the cases would any reports be truly objective. Tompkins make a good case on the subjective nature of the essence
of history in that fact that all elements related from those who experienced events or heard about events would be ultimately skewed to favor peoples personal feelings and this "residue
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