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. . the very real an human problems of the reservation were considered to be merely by products of the failure of a warrior people to become domesticated. The fairly respectable thesis of past exploits in war, perhaps romanticized for morale purposes, became a demonic spiritual force all its own. Some Indians, in a tongue and cheek manner for which Indians are justly famous, suggested that a subsidized wagon train be run through the reservation each morning at 9 a.m. and the reservation people paid a minimum wage for attacking it (p. 91).
In other words, the myth of the "noble savage," intent upon protecting land and family in a war like fashion, places the Indian outside the American experience, when in fact, the Indian is at the heart of the experience in the first place. Thus, when ". . . Congress determined that it had the right to make Indians conform to their idea of civilization and outlined the great legislative attempt to make them into farmers," the dichotomy of placing one aspect of cu
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