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- Title: Religious Assimilation in Early American Fiction.
- Author : Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table
- Release Date : January 22, 2007
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 255 KB
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In Susan Vreeland's novel, The Forest Lover, the artistic and historical accomplishments of Emily Carr (1870-1946) are portrayed. (1) Carr was a strongly independent woman, an amazing adventurer and painter who was born and raised in a well to do family in Victoria, British Columbia. As a young woman, she studied painting, first in London and later in Paris. Her art consists of modern and innovative representations of the rugged frontier villages and people of the Pacific Northwest, and the subject of her paintings ranges from pine trees and bear cubs to eagles and totem poles. In the novel, Halliday, a man described as "the Indian agent" expresses his concern about the First Nation People of British Columbia and their "heathenish ways, especially the potlatch," which he describes as a Grand-Fetes lasting days. Halliday continues "Potlaching requires outlandish expenditures of money for gift-giving, encourages vanity and fantastical competition.... and conflicts with Indian employment in logging, agriculture, and canneries and spreads disease, sloth, rowdiness, irresponsibility, and prostitution, if ye must know." When asked what the alternative might be, the "Indian agent" responds, "Why assimilation, of course." (2) These lines reveal more than an attitude toward religion and competition between religious ideologies. Underlying this conflict about religious belief, one can observe an effort to control the economic, financial, and political freedom of these vulnerable native people. Their vulnerability is not a weakness but the result of their moral and ethical belief in treating others including animals, trees and other objects of nature with respect and in being prudent in their usage and behavior towards them.
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