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Direct linkVest, Jay Hansford C. – American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 2006
In this article, the author proposes to offer the narrative "The Boy Who Could Not Understand" for review and criticism as a manifestation of Native philosophical organicism. It is his contention that the tale represents a form of Native auto-criticism resulting from experiential encounters with youth who had returned from white boarding schools.…
Descriptors: Tales, Ecology, Criticism, Folk Culture
