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Analysis Of Too Heavy To Lift By Thomas King

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The chapter "Too Heavy to Lift", from the Thomas King novel The Inconvenient Indian, differentiate three categories of "Indians", namely Dead Indians, Live Indians and Legal Indians. These categories are social constructs from the Western settler world. I thought the Living Indian analysis was interesting, as it talks about Indigenous people never being Indigenous enough in the settler's eyes. The Legal Indian category raises the important question of the status. In his text, King implies that "only about 40% of Live Indians in North America are Legal Indians". This number seems absurd, and shows either how little recognition of what it means to be Indigenous is given to native people in North America, but also how hard it is to get the status.
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