Forrest Carter's fictional autobiography, The Education of Little Tree, indirectly promotes the institution of segregation, by proposing that such a separation would be beneficial to the state of Native Americans. The author targets white Americans, who are most susceptible to believing and accepting his work as being factual, because he recognizes that this audience is the most oblivious to the true nature of Native Americans. Carter's depiction of this Cherokee family confirms the biases of his audience. Furthermore, he makes it seem that these Native Americans are not only incapable of assimilating into the dominant, white culture, but are unwilling to do so. Though Carter portrays the Indians as ignorant "noble savages", he also attributes an aggressive, if not violent nature that threatens whites who come into contact with the Cherokee family. One comes to the conclusion at the end of the novel that it is better for there to exist two separate societies for the safety of the......
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