Jane Tompkins indians

Jane Tompkins, author of “Indians,” questions the validity of every research, every history book, and every opinion turned fact that has been written. She first writes her perspective as a small child and her own juvenile understanding of Indians. It is as she imagines herself as an Indian playing in the caves that is the pleasurable perspective of an Indian. When her parents took her to meet real Indians, it was always a disappointment for her. She would see them for who they were and even the feathers and blankets and a real Indian in full headdress was not fun, perhaps this perspective would be different if the Indians were excited to see her as she was to see them, perhaps not. Tompkins believes after researching herself the relationship between the Indians and the settlers, those facts, although seemingly true, has a biased attached with it. Thinking critically about this can lead to the questioning of every thing ever written about history. The difficulty she faced in finding...