White Lies, Native Revisions: The Legacy of Violence in the American West
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John R. Legg
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 39, no. 4, Fall, 2019, pp. 331-340
Description
Author explores the contested historical memory of violent engagement between the Unites States government and Indigenous peoples in the mid to late 1800s, and how those narratives have contributed to the idea of American innocence in relation to the displacement genocide of Indigenous peoples.