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Fatal attraction: the white obsession with Indianness.
From: The Historian
Date: 20030622
Author:Dyar, Jennifer
THE "dark, glancing, fearless eye, alike terrible and calm; the bold outline of his high, haughty features, pure in their native red": the whites of James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans stand mesmerized as they gaze at the young Indian warrior, feeling that they simultaneously observe both % being partially benighted in the vale of ignorance" and a "precious relic of the Grecian chisel." (1) As Cooper's novel suggests, white Americans have long been captivated by the lure of Indianness, often fantasizing about being Indians themselves. (2) Over the course of the ...
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