Post by Okwes on Feb 18, 2006 10:55:13 GMT -5
One of the most popular books on Indian life is Forrest Carter's The
Education of Little Tree, the story of a boyhood spent with Cherokee
grandparents. This "autobiography" was yet another fake, penned by Asa
Carter <http://www.nativeweb.org/pages/legal/carter.html> , a white
supremacist and Ku Klux Klan member. Grey Owl
<http://www.waskesiu.com/greyowl.htm> , a noted Canadian naturalist and
author, lived as an Indian and claimed to be half-Apache. Only after his
death in 1939 did the world discover he was really an Englishman born
Archibald Belaney. Long Lance, the 1928 thrilling first-person account
of Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance, was the work of Sylvester Long, an
African-American who conned the literary world into believing he was a
Cherokee, and then a Cree. While the ruse lasted, Buffalo Child Long
Lance was a hit on the lecture circuit and one of the darlings of New
York society. His spree ended when the truth about his background was
exposed in 1930, and he killed himself with a shot to the head in 1931.
Education of Little Tree, the story of a boyhood spent with Cherokee
grandparents. This "autobiography" was yet another fake, penned by Asa
Carter <http://www.nativeweb.org/pages/legal/carter.html> , a white
supremacist and Ku Klux Klan member. Grey Owl
<http://www.waskesiu.com/greyowl.htm> , a noted Canadian naturalist and
author, lived as an Indian and claimed to be half-Apache. Only after his
death in 1939 did the world discover he was really an Englishman born
Archibald Belaney. Long Lance, the 1928 thrilling first-person account
of Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance, was the work of Sylvester Long, an
African-American who conned the literary world into believing he was a
Cherokee, and then a Cree. While the ruse lasted, Buffalo Child Long
Lance was a hit on the lecture circuit and one of the darlings of New
York society. His spree ended when the truth about his background was
exposed in 1930, and he killed himself with a shot to the head in 1931.