Week 2 – Native Americans: Conquest, Removal & the Myth of the Noble-Savage

Primary Texts:

George Washington Parke Custis – Pocahontas, or The Settlers of Virginia (1830) (play)

Sarah Winnemucca – from Life Among the Piutes (1883) (Chapter 8)  (memoir)

Zitkala-Ša – from The School Days of an Indian Girl (1900) (Chapter 2) (autobiography)

Secondary Reading:

William Apess – “An Indian’s Looking-Glass for the White Man” (1833)

Sarah Winnemucca – Life Among the Piutes (Chapter 8)
William Apess – An Indian’s Looking-Glass for the White Man
George Washington Parke Custis - Pocahontas
Zitkala-Ša - The School Days of an Indian Girl
Native Americans