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My first rhetoric of domination: The Columbian encounter in children's biographies

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Susan Gardner's interest in and commitment to the world's Native peoples resulted from teaching in Papua New Guinea, Australia, and Southern Africa. At present she teaches Native North American Indian Literatures at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte.

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Gardner, S. My first rhetoric of domination: The Columbian encounter in children's biographies. Child Lit Educ 22, 275–290 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01139481

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