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American Indian ethnohistorian David Rich Lewis gives a convincing history of the invention of the modern equivalent of the Noble Savage, the trope of ‘Ecological Indian’, tracing it through 60s counterculture, the Crying Indian of the 1970s’ ‘Keep America Beautiful’ advertising campaigns, a script writer’s creation of a fictional speech by Chief
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