Unsettled accounts of Indians and others

The story of the white man’s invention of the Indian and how this image sustained America’s myth of civilization has been ably documented.2 In order for the myth to be realized, the Red Body was to be drained of its life-blood and transformed into a pale shadow of the colonizer, while providing the transfusion that would revitalize this alien. Native America was to be no more than a punctuation mark at an erased site of difference: a vampirized body, neither living nor dead, haunting the domain of the unspeakable. The unspeakable has, nevertheless, been retranslating itself through the colonial discourse imposed upon it, and another voice has come about. It speaks, not for a revision of ‘history’, but for a denaturing of dominant myths from within their own representations; it speaks, not as a ‘return of the repressed’ (what once was), but as a resonance born of the duplicitous effects of colonialism. The following notes and accounts circulate around the discourse of the other, addressing those configurations that map the place assigned by white culture to Native American peoples

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