...of civilization, and he and forest must perish together. The stern, unchanging features of his mind excite our admiration from their very immutability;...not be weaned from the breast of his rugged mother." Why the sense of doom in Parkman's passage? Why cannot the bliss of the infant at the mother's breast...

...civilization, and he and his forest must perish together. The stern, unchanging features of his mind excite our admiration from their very immutability;...fate of this irreclaimable son of the wilderness.* 6 For Parkman the naturalist, "immutability" of identity was a sounder and much more useful argument...

...inhabits, and even as Parkman goes about his clearing and hewing as the pioneer/historian, he notes that "we look with deep interest on the fate of this irreclaimable son of the wilderness" as his doom approaches. And our interest increases when we discern in the unhappy wanderer, mingled...

...civilization, and he and his forest must perish together. The stern, unchanging features of his mind excite our admiration from their very immutability;...fate of this irreclaimable son of the wilderness. 46 For Parkman the naturalist, "immutability" of identity was a sounder and much more useful argument...

...relation to the natural world. 168 He quotes from Francis Parkman: 'We look with deep interest on the face of this irreclaimable son of the wilderness, the child...who will not be weaned from the breast of his rugged mother.'1" Such a perception generated a fantasy of the Indian as infant or, in perhaps anachronistic...

...[habitat] must perish together. The stern, unchanging features of his mind excite our admiration for their very immutability; and we look with deep interest on the fate of this irreclaimable son of the wilderness."'9 Representing Indians in The North American Indian After the publication of the final...

...of c1vilization, and he and forest must perish together. The stern, unchanging features of his mind excite our admiration from their very immutability,...be weaned from the breast of his rugged mother.'' The Indian remained at a primitive oral stage, and had not made the transition to the symbolic order...

...of civilization, and he and forest must perish together. The stern, unchanging features of his mind excite our admiration from their very immutability;...who will not be weaned from the breast of his rugged mother.'5 The Indian remained at a primitive oral stage, and had not made the transition to the symbolic...

...civilization, and he and his forest must perish together. The stern, unchanging features of his mind excite our admiration, from their very immutability;...who will not be weaned from the breast of his rugged mother."22 In fact, of course, even this Indian whom Parkman has just described no longer existed....

...white conceptions of the Indian's quasi-human form, as is his equally careful paternalistic imagery: "We look with deep interest on the fate of this irreclaimable...not be weaned from the breast of his rugged mother." Widespread cultural perceptions of the American Indian as a "child" of nature — both innocent and...