Shepherd_Kretch

Shepherd Kretch Shepherd Kretch begins his novel with a very striking image which we all probably remember: who could forget the face of “the Crying Indian”' Kretch goes from this to explain that this add states that the Indian does not pollute, as his white counterparts do, and therefore “the white destroy[s] his land. He destroy[ed] planet earth” (Quoted in Kretch, 22), and Indians have this “noble image”. Ah,,the noble savage strikes again. Kretch explains both the noble savage and the ignoble savage and talks about the past and how people have revered Indians as “carefree, eloquent people living innocent, naked lives in a golden world of nature” (Kretch, 17), and consequently, the opposite on how they were bloodthirsty savages. He also touches on the French authors Rousseau and Montaigne, as we have read about previously, and their half-witted, daydream version on Native Americans. Kretch’s “Ecological Indian” is the Indian that we all know from the movies, television, on book covers and on T-shirts, who “feels sympathy with all living forms” (Kretch, 21) and always stays in balance. The noble savage idea. The first chapter of Kretch’s book is on the Prehistoric peoples that were here or came here from somewhere kretch, about, people, species, savage, noble, indian, extinction, time, think, say, plants, large, known, know, just, indians, hard, because, animals, , white, very, talks, surroundings, southward, somewhere, says, really, prehistoric, peoples, nothing, much, move, maybe, martin