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Page 101
Are we erecting a myth of inhuman savagery in order to rationalize colonial dominance over " our " natives ? Men have long been defined as soul - less beasts fit for the labour of colonial empire and perhaps for salvation .
Are we erecting a myth of inhuman savagery in order to rationalize colonial dominance over " our " natives ? Men have long been defined as soul - less beasts fit for the labour of colonial empire and perhaps for salvation .
Page 103
Wiitiko is not necessarily a cannibal ; he may be only a murderer of his fellows , urged on by dreams , melancholy , and brooding ; still clearly bestial , but possibly manifesting the desperate plight of the colonial oppressed .
Wiitiko is not necessarily a cannibal ; he may be only a murderer of his fellows , urged on by dreams , melancholy , and brooding ; still clearly bestial , but possibly manifesting the desperate plight of the colonial oppressed .
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The first English colonial settlements were in areas of Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay Colonies which had been most depopulated by the Indian " Plague " of ca. 1616-18 . But the surviving natives , too , were simultaneously regrouping ...
The first English colonial settlements were in areas of Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay Colonies which had been most depopulated by the Indian " Plague " of ca. 1616-18 . But the surviving natives , too , were simultaneously regrouping ...
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Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
Day National Museum of Man INDIAN PLACENAMES | 26 |
Rémi Savard Université de Montréal MYTHES ET COSMOLOGIES | 50 |
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