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Title: A Disgraceful Book
Review: I agree totally with Raymond Whritenour that this is a terrible book, poorly written, poorly researched, and not worthy of any Indian scholar's notice. The author pretends to know something about native languages but, in fact, knows very little. I supplied him with certain words from the Mohican language but he misquotes me in every case. Chapter 15 on the Mohicans comes close to being an insult to that tribe and the rest of the book manages to dehumanize Algonquians in general. The book's endnotes are virtually useless and provide the reader with no sources for the outlandish statements the author makes. The publisher of this work should be ashamed of himself.
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