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6 Essays on Native American Thought & Behaviors

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Martin, Calvin. Keepers of the Game: Indian-Animal Relationships and the Fur Trade.

California: The University of California Press, 1982.

According to Scott Momaday, a Native American who has become acculturated into the white society, Indians are not the befeathered creatures seen chasing John Wayne across a movie screen (102). With a foot in both worlds he is able to describe in considerable detail the Indian worldview and how it differs from that of the white person of European descent. His main idea is that the worldview of the Indian is so different that the typical Caucasian probably could not understand it.

Winds that low and lean upon the mountains. Momaday's poetry interspersed with his straightforward scholarly writing helps one walk in the moccasins of Indian thought. The native person does not view himself as apart from the land, the sky, the sun, the animals or the mou

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