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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (14030)12/4/1997 1:57:00 AM
From: Krowbar   of 108807
 
<< Some other writers were less cynical about the Indians they encountered.
The French Jesuit whose journals were used as the basis of the film Black Robe
found the Indians more noble than Twain, although very fierce. >>

I think that I could become fierce too if I saw my tribe being systematically destroyed. Twain, being a writer, should have known enough not to create stereotypes on a sampling of a few pitiful souls that he encountered.

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