Blue Corn Comics -- Stereotype of the Month Entry

Stereotype of the Month Entry
(1/11/01)

From a book review of Big Chief Elizabeth, a new book about Sir Walter Ralegh's effort to sponsor the first English settlement in North America. In the LA Times, 1/11/01:

[The author's] point of view is that of an unabashed Englishman who feels no need to question the deeds of his ancestors. Thus English captains—no matter how destructive their encounters with the Indians—are "valiant," exemplars of Bridge-on-the-River-Kwai style pluck and stoic will. In turn, he lavishes page after page on reports of Indian treachery, cruelty and even cannibalism, though he admits the accounts were "embellished."

Related links
Indians as cannibals
Savage Indians

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