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Rishell expands on the motif of the "vanishing Indian" to add the idea of an exclusive settler modernity: with the apparent success of this age, there can be no "real Natives" left.
1media/Rishell Quote--interlocuters_thumb.PNG2022-12-19T06:18:57-08:00Bennett Herson-Roeserc8289125445a56c819045a0091daf0402b3e0875"The supposed significance of the text," Rishell, ed., The Life (1912), x.1BHR--Interlocuters Imagemedia/Rishell Quote--interlocuters.PNGplain2022-12-19T06:19:27-08:00Bennett Herson-Roeserc8289125445a56c819045a0091daf0402b3e0875