Appropriate Appropriation: A White Writer's Attempt to Understand His Own Complicity in the Ongoing Psychological Colonization of Native Americans

Abstract

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.