# Dedication explained — Laughing Boy

> Chapter companion for Laughing Boy by Oliver La Farge.

## What happens

The author dedicates the book to a beautiful Native American woman whose name he has forgotten.

## Key lines

> 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._

## Links

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