dan and all, in response to the binary of bad/good & euro/native, have you read James Clifford's (i think it is him), "The Native Indian in the North American Public Imaginary"? I can't find my copy of it and so am not very sure of either the name or title. Does anyone have a reference for this article? In it he traces the discursive formations which are hung around native virtue/coloniser sin. It is, i think, a valuable deconstruction of an assumption most of us never have reason to interrogate. cheers rhys ---------------------- Rhys Evans Arkleton Centre For Rural Development Research University of Aberdeen Old Aberdeen, UK AB24 3DS %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%