Answer to any of the prompts (or more if you like)
1. To what does Luther Standing Bear attribute the difference between the "white" mind and the "Indian" mind? Do you agree
2. Below is the text of the 1964 Wilderness Act to which Louis Owens refers to in "The American Indian Wilderness". How is it problematic? How would you rephrase it?
3. Refer to the keyword "Indian" in Burgett and Hendler, Keywords for American Cultrual Studies (2007) - see moodle. Is it what you expected to find there? Would you improve it or restructure it if you were commissioned with doing it?
In the first edition they speak about indigenous people and how others refer to them and which terms are better to use than others. During the explanation they come to a conclusion that 'indian' is not the best. So it confuses me that they chose the word 'indian' and not 'native americans' or 'indigenous'. An other remark is that they always talk ABOUT the native Americans but their is no native American who really speaks. In the 3th edition they kept the word 'Indian' but also made a section about 'indigenous'. But is the section 'indian' still nessesary?
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