[Icthus]

"..The image of a fierce Indian warrior is itself a degrading stereotype.."

What a joke! These people never run out of of feel good causes do they?

[Chi-townChief]

Aha! I've found the reference:

Maroons: Rebel Slaves in the Americas by Richard Price

The man who was to become the first African-American maroon arrived within a decade of Columbus' landfall on the very first slave ship to reach the Americas. One of the last maroons to escape from slavery was still alive in Cuba only 15 years ago. The English word "maroon" (The authors have chosen to spell "maroon" in lower case when it is used to refer to individuals who escaped from slavery. It is capitalized only when used generically to refer to contemporary peoples or ethnic groups.) derives from Spanish cimarrón -- itself based on an Arawakan (Taino) Indian root. Cimarrón originally referred to domestic cattle that had taken to the hills in Hispaniola, and soon after it was applied to American Indian slaves who had escaped from the Spaniards as well. By the end of the 1530s, the word had taken on strong connotations of being "fierce," "wild" and "unbroken," and was used primarily to refer to African-American runaways.

[gov_bean_ counter]

And I guess the early Creeks and Seminoles just got together every Friday night for bingo.

[willyone]

Did not Russell Means stand trial for the murder of a couple of FBI agents on a reservation in South Dakota? Also he was in the Last of the Mohicans and was a great actor in it.