Indians and English

Indians and English: Facing Off in Early America. By Karen Ordahl Kupperman. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000. In Indians and English, Karen Ordahl Kupperman contends that… When the class was first prompted to read and then analyze Karen Ordahl Kupperman’s latest book, Indians and English, a wave of apprehension rushed over my mind. A 300 page book about the historical accounts of our European ancestors and Native American Indians is not my idea of a good …

…of each other. The Indians had probably the most influential impact on English colonialism in America than any other group of people. Kupperman does a superb job of showing us that. Her use of individual accounts proved vital in epitomizing her thesis. History, and stories relating to the importance of history on two or more cultures, is a very complex topic. Kupperman can definitely be credited for removing the complexity and replacing it with simplicity.