by Rich Wandschneider | Feb 12, 2013 | Alvin Josephy, Hudson’s Bay Company, missionary movement, noble savage, Peter Rindisbacher, plains Indians, rousseau
I keep trying to write about “assimilation,” because I know that Alvin considered it—the ways in which the white power structure has “zigzagged,” as he put it, with policies and actions aimed at “making Indians stop being Indians and turn themselves into...
