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An 8 page paper which critically reviews this historical text by focusing upon the author’s central question, which is ‘How would Indians have written their own history of colonial America?’ An examination as to why the author considers this question so important and worthy of investigation is then presented and also considered is how he makes his point, and how well he makes his case through supporting evidence. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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the territories thought they had left behind" (Richter 1). University of Pennsylvania Professor Daniel K. Richter is one of the foremost authorities on Early American history prior to 1800.
In his important text entitled Facing East from Indian Country, Richter seeks to right a grievous wrong that has been perpetuated throughout the telling and retelling of American history.
Most of the colonial historical tradition has been almost solely viewed from a European perspective with the emphasis firmly placed upon western expansionism. The Native American voice has
been consistently silenced to the point where they have been reduced to little more than a footnote that has been based more on a perpetuated Western myth than on anything
remotely resembling fact. That is why Professor Richter decided to face east and give the American Indian a chance to finally bask in the glow of the sun instead
of being forced to ride off into the sunset of American history. Facing East "fills a noticeable gap in the
current historiography by offering a synthesized account of Native American history from a decidedly Native American perspective" (Macleitch 261). In the text prologue, Richter observes, "The emergence of an
aggressively expansionist Euro-American United States... is a problem to be explained, not an inevitable process" (7-8). Richter is well aware that the tale of American colonization is told in
the voice of a European speaker with decidedly ethnocentric cultural attitudes that invariably influence the storytelling. In most history books, just like in Western films, the colonial pioneers are
presented as the quintessential good guys that bring religion and civilization to the New World while the Native Americans are condescendingly referred to as Indians because of mistaken geography, and
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