The great horse culture of the plains was gone and the American frontier was soon to pass into history.”
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“Thirteen years later, their homes destroyed, their buffalo gone, the last band of free Sioux submitted to white authority at Fort Robinson, Nebraska. While the film succeeds in rendering the Lakota characters as fully-developed people with motivations, concerns, humor, and the individual personality variations often afforded only non-Indian characters, at the end the filmmakers made their fictionalized Native band vanish. "Dances With Wolves" (1990), a box office triumph after a flub-filled filming process, is a fictional account of Lieutenant John Dunbar (Kevin Costner) and his process of “going Indian” after befriending a band of Lakota neighbors.
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In the nineties, Americans loved a certain kind of Indian. If someone had asked me to explain the difference between my plastic doll and me, I might have said that she was the real Indian and I was the fake one.
She painted with all the colors of the wind. She communicated with animals and never wore a jacket. I had outgrown my Barbies then, but I still added a Pocahontas doll to my retired collection. Disney’s "Pocahontas" was released in 1995, when I was ten. I grew up in the time of Native American proverb posters and mass-produced dream catchers. The sum of the Cascade and Cowlitz fractions made an awkward hybrid. “What are you, a quarter?” people would toss out at times. This was the “How much?” people had prodded me about, and it wasn’t the half I’d assumed. I didn’t know that was the term for the sum of the fractions next to Cowlitz and Cascade. The truly shocking information the card carried was my Indian blood quantum.
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I knew that I was Cowlitz, Polish, Irish, and Ukrainian, but the card was full of surprising facts as well. She pulled an index card out of her desk drawer. Once I was old enough to know that my mother was Indian and my father wasn’t, I began responding “Half.” It wasn’t until my teenage years that I would ask my mother for the details of my ethnic breakdown. This article originally appeared on The Weeklings.ĪS A COWLITZ Indian child, white-skinned and New Jersey-born, I grew up fielding the question, “How much Indian are you?” without any sense of its meaning.