Re: Andy Rooney's Racism re: Natives

Michael Bruce McDonald (mcdonald@oregon.bitnet)
Thu, 2 Apr 1992 00:07:00 PST


Original-Subject: Andy "Ruinedhead" Rooney

I, for one, would very much like to see Lee Flier's response to Andy R.
I always appreciate the insight that Flier and Peshewegunzh bring to this
list.

[ Lee's article was relayed at 20:03 EST on Wednesday, 1 April. --Gary ]

P.S. I recently started reading Peter Mathiessen's *In the Spirit of Crazy
Horse*; Mathiessen is a writer I very much admire generally and, so far, he
seems to write about the Peltier case with the insight, wisdom, and painstaking
research which I have come to expect from him.

Would anyone care to comment on this book, or on aspects of the Peltier case
that Mathiessen may have missed, got wrong, or overlooked?

[ A fair amount was written on the subject when the book was first published.
Interested NativeNet subscribers may wish to check the LISTSERV archives at
TAMVM1. --Gary ]

Thanks,
Michael Bruce McDonald