The Traveller Within: Everything that is culturally fucked up about Avatar (And no, not just its politics)

This likely will offend some, if American or White - but that is purpose of social networking. - make people think!!!!

Wish I had the journalistic mind of the author, or that of commentors. This is good read and take the "white" references in stride. Mentioned is "Dances with Wolves" but my favourite as book is "Lost my Heart at Wounded Knee" with a difference - no white hero in this prose.

The Traveller Within: Everything that is culturally fucked up about Avatar (And no, not just its politics)

Editorial Review-Lost My Heart at Wounded Knee
Amazon.com
First published in 1970, this extraordinary book changed the way Americans think about the original inhabitants of their country. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos in 1860 and ending 30 years later with the massacre of Sioux men, women, and children at Wounded Knee in South Dakota, it tells how the American Indians lost their land and lives to a dynamically expanding white society. During these three decades, America's population doubled from 31 million to 62 million. Again and again, promises made to the Indians fell victim to the ruthlessness and greed of settlers pushing westward to make new lives. The Indians were herded off their ancestral lands into ever-shrinking reservations, and were starved and killed if they resisted. It is a truism that "history is written by the victors;" for the first time, this book described the opening of the West from the Indians' viewpoint. Accustomed to stereotypes of Indians as red savages, white Americans were shocked to read the reasoned eloquence of Indian leaders and learn of the bravery with which they and their peoples endured suffering. With meticulous research and in measured language overlaying brutal narrative, Dee Brown focused attention on a national disgrace. Still controversial but with many of its premises now accepted, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee has sold 5 million copies around the world. Thirty years after it first broke onto the national conscience, it has lost none of its importance or emotional impact. --John Stevenson