10-21-2016, 09:50 AM
Interestingly ambivalent, or so I read it. (Starting out, the title reference to aboriginals and the site's association with the Australian region had me trying to fit it into Australian aborigines or Maori, but by the end all that lacked to make the subject positively the people we're now to call Native Americans was reference to casinos.)
As such it seems to be a straightforward recitation of the white man's sins and aboriginals' resentment... until those two or more little hooks about drink and (at the very end) motivation insert doubts into that narrative. Very nicely done. (And if those hooks were meant, instead, to be further effects of the old sins, without questioning the motives and actions of their present-day victims, the work admits other interpretations. Which is great.)
A good read. Thanks!
As such it seems to be a straightforward recitation of the white man's sins and aboriginals' resentment... until those two or more little hooks about drink and (at the very end) motivation insert doubts into that narrative. Very nicely done. (And if those hooks were meant, instead, to be further effects of the old sins, without questioning the motives and actions of their present-day victims, the work admits other interpretations. Which is great.)
A good read. Thanks!
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