An interesting tidbit that one can pick up from the book is a description of the lost art of psalmody. ... Indeed, the Indians he depicted have no real-life parallel. ... So far as we can tell, Cooper had little personal contact with Indians. ... The description of Indian atrocities is mostly based on the Heckewelder description of their enemies, the Iroquois. It is most simply that Cooper's Indians are unrealistic. ...

• Word Count: 1482
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

There are also stories about other Indian tribes who had encountered Bigfoot. ... Some tribes even made art of Bigfoot. ... These giants (12 to 15 feet tall cannibals) were said to attack Indian villages and take the inhabitants for food. The Paiute Indians have history with these giants that they called the Si Te Cah (Paulides). ... He realized that it must have been the beast the Indian tribes were talking about (Parkash). ...

• Word Count: 1785
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Yet, whose labor were they living off of freely, exploiting and breeding them as if they were mere animals (and depicted as such in various art and literature)? ... Zitkala Ša in Impressions of an Indian Childhood uses the narrative voice of a young girl (her) to explain what happened to her when this attempt at assimilation occurred. ...

• Word Count: 1871
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate