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Dear Ms Black,
One thing that has always bothered me about reading Westerns in which Indians and Whites come into conflict is that usually the white heroine gets captured by the noble Indian hero, falls in love after being humiliated by him numerous times, completely accepts the Indian culture and lifestyle while repudiating her white heritage then has some final showdown with Evil Whites after which she and her noble hero ride off into the sunset. And I just can’t buy it. Because I don’t think someone raised their whole life one way can all of a sudden change. Because usually these books come off as more Stockholm Syndrome than true love. Because generally one side is portrayed as Pure and Wonderful while the other is nothing but Evil and Loathsomeness. And because these authors usually don’t acknowledge that the life of the Plains tribes was on the way out and that the future for most of these couples was probably life on the run or on a Reservation. Thank you for not writing one of those books. Instead we get a realistic portrayal of a captive white woman’s return to white civilization and …
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