American Literature 201September 1

Michael SimpsonSection 051

“There must be in their social bond something singularly captivating, and far superior to anything to be boasted of among us; for thousands of Europeans are Indians, and we have no examples of even one of those Aborigines having from choice become Europeans.”

J. Hector St. John Crevecoeur*

•Kolodny, Annette. “Among the Indians: The Uses of Captivity.” New York Times Book Review•December 31, 1993

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It is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson *

* Sante, Luc. “The Fiction of Memory” The New York Times. March 14, 2010.