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From: Jean Mendoza <jamendoz>
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 18:01:02 -0500
Hi, folks, Looking forward to reading Our Only May Amelia as soon as my order comes in. the century" - I find it exasperating that writers (and readers, for that matter) of popular historical fiction set in the US are still in denial about what "settlement of the frontier" really meant.
As far as the indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest were concerned, that area was HOME, not "frontier", and had been settled
-- by them -- for millenia. Unfortunately for them, THEY became
"unsettled", to put it euphemistically, so that families like May Amelia's could move in and prosper there.
Jean M. Jean Paine Mendoza, Doctoral Student Department of Curriculum and Instruction College of Education, UIUC Champaign, IL
Received on Mon 31 Jan 2000 05:01:02 PM CST
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 18:01:02 -0500
Hi, folks, Looking forward to reading Our Only May Amelia as soon as my order comes in. the century" - I find it exasperating that writers (and readers, for that matter) of popular historical fiction set in the US are still in denial about what "settlement of the frontier" really meant.
As far as the indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest were concerned, that area was HOME, not "frontier", and had been settled
-- by them -- for millenia. Unfortunately for them, THEY became
"unsettled", to put it euphemistically, so that families like May Amelia's could move in and prosper there.
Jean M. Jean Paine Mendoza, Doctoral Student Department of Curriculum and Instruction College of Education, UIUC Champaign, IL
Received on Mon 31 Jan 2000 05:01:02 PM CST
