Indians

Indians In “Indians” by Jane Tompkins, she discusses the problems that follow the history of the real Indians that once inhabited this land before being ousted by the Europeans. She investigates how other famous authors perceived the life of the Indians and their problems with the Europeans. Her main issue is how the facts, which we think, are “true” facts should not be considered concrete. History has a way of changing information over time and different people have different perceptions on Indians. Interesting enough, the author uses quotation marks around the word Indians. This is done because we really do not know the truth about these so-called “Indians”. We attached a history and amore importantly a reputation to these groups of people just because we accept anybody’s facts. Based on what she wrote, she concludes that she cannot accept other people’s facts as her own. She feels that she needs to piece together the life of the European-Indian relationship. She feels someone elses facts is the product of their own perspective and therefore piecing together the facts and seeing if everything goes hand and hand. She supports this by quoting over five different authors indians, facts, therefore, own, europeans, different, article, story, relationship, really, people, over, out, ourselves, need, history, being, because, based, author, about, wrote, words, way, very, true, tompkins, together, think, things, statement, should, said, question, problems