MDMD colonial treatment of native Americans

[Otto]

----- Original Message -----
From: Doug Millison <millison at online-journalist.com>
>
> What do you all make of the fact that Pynchon chooses to highlight this
> material in M&D?
>

That our national myths are myths, even in the land of the free and the home
of the brave!

The dark side of the American Revolution, genocide and slavery, is easily
forgotten when they do those open-air plays for the schoolclasses.

"The Paxton Boys do not regard themselves as animals. Far from it - they are
Presbyterians and, two days after Christmas, have come to carry out the
Scriptures' instructions to Joshua - to rid the world of heathens."

It's interesting that the Indians are hunted and protected by different
religious sectarians.

Otto