Wong, ShawnPotter, Josh2015-09-292015-09-292015-09-292015Potter_washington_0250O_14625.pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/1773/33830Thesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2015Colonization 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.application/pdfen-USCopyright is held by the individual authors.Colonization; Fiction; Media; Native American; PsychologyLiteratureenglishThesis