Views on Indigenous People

Posted on June 24, 2005 by Tito

Pardon the radio silence on the WTV front – I’d been working on a now-scrapped-in-its-current form post covering Experience, Memory, Authority and Dogma with Fathers and Crows & WTV in mind. Unfortunately, it spiraled into an incoherent mess. Perhaps I will post serialized thoughts regarding these topics. But I offer you these in the meantime…

Commentary Magazine  has the article What Native Peoples Deserve by Roger Sandall in which the Brazilian Cinta Larga Indians are discussed. There are a number of items in this piece which come up in Fathers and Crows – including some disturbingly graphic descriptions of violence. So you may not want to read this during lunch.

MobyLives.com alerts us that:

William Fenton, author and "nationally renowned scholar of Iroquois culture," has died at age 96 in Cooperstown, New York. As a brief obituary on the Associated Press wire indicates, Fenton "became fluent in the Iroquois language and was hailed by the Indian tribes for helping to preserve their culture." While also serving as director of the New York State Museum, he subsequently "published several books considered the definitive works on the customs and ceremonies of the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy."

» Filed Under Politics, Race, Voll-Tron (William T. Vollmann A Go Go)

Comments

2 Responses to “Views on Indigenous People”

  1. ed on June 27th, 2005 1:45 pm

    Unless you’re going for a pun (indignant with indigenous), it’s spelled “indigenous.” :)

  2. Tito on June 27th, 2005 1:54 pm

    Uh yeah, pun, that’s the ticket. [note - the previous comment refers to an out-of-print edition of this post]

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