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Dedication explained
The author dedicates the book to a beautiful Native American woman whose name he has forgotten.
What happens
The author dedicates the book to a beautiful Native American woman whose name he has forgotten.
Key passages
“Dedicated to The only beautiful squaw I have ever seen in all my life, whose name I have forgotten”
This book is dedicated to the one Native American woman I found truly beautiful, though I no longer recall her name.
The dedication reflects a colonial gaze and the erasure of Indigenous identity.