Woman and Myth - Spirit and Ghost

by Diane Way

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Pocahontas Euro-ized, romanticized; her spirit and ghost	Sacagawea She didn't know what was to come... that greed of power and money would overtake her people. And now they want to "honor" her for helping them do it by making a coin with her image. NO SALE

First-American Tragedies

Re-interpreted portraits of two historic American Indian women whose tragic stories have yet to be truthfully told; made into romantic figures or reduced to cartoon characters as "good indians" because they helped Euro-Americans.

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