Re: Re: [DL] Gone Native for blacks

["Nick Zachariasen" <zacharin@pluto.dsu.edu>]

> Many Indian tribes actually adopt at the drop of a hat.  Russel Means
(Chingachgook from the recent "Last of the Mohicans" and the head of the
American Indian Movement) formally adopted both Daniel Day-Lewis and Eric
Stolze.  Whether you were 'natural born' or not, you could become an
accepted member of the tribe if you embraced the culture and lived by its
precepts.  So it would actually be more appropriate to play an Indian with a
different skin color.
>

Also, on the History Channel they had something once that showed a black man
who had been adopted into a tribe.  I think he'd been kidnapped and
assimilated, but I wouldn't swear to it.

Nick Zachariasen
Editor Emeritus
Trojan Times