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Title: Mr. Bova has seen too many Hollywood Indians
Review: This may have been an interesting story, but I could not stomach the offensive racial and cultural stereotypes. I finally put the book down-- threw it in the trash, actually-- after the main character, a half-Navajo, upon receiving good news, was depicted as follows: "Jamie's first impulse was to give an ear-splitting war whoop." I doubt a Navajo would be any more tempted to react to good news in this fashion than I, of Irish descent, would be tempted to shout "begorrah" and dance a jig.Mr. Bova deals the Navajo people a great insult by portraying them without bothering to do more than a cursory research of their culture. Mr. Bova: Navajo children on the reservation do not speak broken English.
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