“They Found and Left Her an Indian”: Gender, Race, and the Whitening of Young Bear
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jim J. Buss
Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, vol. 29, no. 2-3, 2008, pp. 1-35
Description
Examines Frances Slocum’s cultural conversion from a white girl to an Indian woman; explores the dissemination of her story; and investigates the ways in which white writers later stressed the story of Frances Slocum as the story of a white woman.