Appropriate Appropriation: A White Writer's Attempt to Understand His Own Complicity in the Ongoing Psychological Colonization of Native Americans
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Potter, Josh
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Colonization presents itself in psychological parameters both culturally and individually. The way modern, mainstream media represents and manifests Native Americans perpetuates a historic trauma that began with European colonization and has moved into intellectual appropriation. This paper studies, specifically, contemporary literature's complicity in this type of appropriation.
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