The Inconvenient Indian

The Inconvenient Indian

by

Thomas King

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Dead Indians, Live Indians, and Legal Indians

King defines three categories of Indians that exist in real life: Dead Indians, Live Indians, and Legal Indians. These categories symbolize what King sees as a sharp disconnect between how North American culture perceives Native…

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The End of the Trail

The End of the Trail is a 1915 sculpture by the American artist James Earle Fraser. The sculpture itself symbolizes the gradual destruction of Native culture and the incompatibility of the old way of…

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