Tallahatchie, Onondaga, Wononscopomuc, Monongahela, Appalachia. A-ho! We Americans love the romance of our Native American names, strewn across this great nation like eagle feathers on bridges, counties, lakes, rivers, and mountain ranges. What would America be without summer camps named Camp Ton-A-Wandah and Camp Tamaqua? Apple pie-American blond cheerleaders with a touch of Native ancestry take pride in the high cheekbones their Lakota Sioux or Chickasaw great-grandmothers blessed their lineages with. Of course, all of the above aspects of American culture have currently been declared “racist,” but that’s an entirely different article.
Popcorn and Inspiration: ‘Hostiles’: Wild West Tale Teaches Letting go of Hostility
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By Mark Jackson
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