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Title: Truly pathetic!
Review: This book is an insult to empirical scholarship, i.e. scholarship based on critically interrogated facts. If it is of use, and that is a big "IF", it is as a diagnostic of the political environment of the late 20th century that somehow thought a filiopietistic approach to African/Afro-American history was culturally useful even if it did abject violence to any real sense of Native American history AND denigrated Native Americans. Here's what is truly appalling, some publicly supported cultural institution was underwriting this clap-trap while serious scholars of PreColumbian America were scratching for funding. Makes me sick to think about!
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