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Les Sauvages Americains: Representations of Native Americans in French and English Colonial Literature
Les Sauvages Americains Representations of Native Americans in French and English Colonial Literature Author:Gordon M. Sayre Beginning with the writings of John Smith and Samuel de Champlain, this text analyzes French and English accounts of Native Americans to reveal the rhetorical codes by which their cultures were represented and the influence that these images of Indians had on colonial and modern American society.