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The Imaginary Indian: The Image of the Indian in Canadian Culture

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I am using this book in my fnat class at VIU and am amazed at how easy it is to understand. Daniel Francis is non-native and he manages to give many perspectives to the image non-natives have of first nations people.
He breaks it down to explain how from first contact non-natives have been creating the "image" of what we think is "indian". Francis helps you figure out where all the myths and cultural misconcepts come from and why many of these ideas were encouraged by non-natives and who gained from these myths. Fascinating reading, I finished it weeks before I was supposed to!