From Sand Creek Salish (Séliš) Smith doesn't entirely square his

Smith doesn't entirely square his view of Indians as "just plain folks" with his advancing of a unique Indian cultural perspective

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From Sand Creek Salish (Séliš) Smith doesn't entirely square hisThe massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho women and children by U. S. soldiers at Sand Creek in 1864 was a shameful episode in American history, and its battlefield was proposed as a National Historic Site in 1998 to pay homage to those innocent victims. Poet Simon Ortiz had honored those people seventeen years earlier in his own way. That book, from Sand Creek, is now back in print. Originally published in a small press edition, from Sand Creek makes a