Lies My Teacher Told Me

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119 Charles M. Segal and David C. Stineback, Puritans, Indians, and
Manifest Destiny (New York: Putnam, 1977), 48. Turner, Beyond Geography,
215-16, also says Indian-white relations and whites’ “unjustified and
blasphemous” land claims, in Williams’s view, were the key cause of his
banishment.


120 Prucha, ed., The Indian in American History, 7.


121 Satz, American Indian Policy in the Jacksonian Era, 25.


122 Blancke and Slow Turtle, “The Teaching of the Past of the Native Peoples
of North America in U.S. Schools,” 121.


123 This point is implied by Dean A. Crawford, David L. Peterson, and Virgil
Wurr, “Why They Remain Indians,” in Vogel, ed., This Country Was Ours,
282-84. See also Robert Berkhover, The White Man’s Indian (New York:
Alfred A. Knopf, 1978), 192-93.


124 Christopher Vecsey, “Envision Ourselves Darkly, Imagine Ourselves
Richly,” in Martin, ed., The American Indian and the Problem of History,



  1. Jennings makes a similar argument in The Ambiguous Iroquois Empire
    (New York: Norton, 1984), 482.

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