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ogenerato ort... ... d , due o the ret... s o ever since. e then, asso ""...ans... ha... squa... She became " caste... seeme the opposite... has not kept other alliance... the same nature from being regularly frowned upon. Ah, but Pocahontas was a princess and very beautiful... were many Indian wive... Oregon Territory princesses, and quit... good-lookin... the freshnes... maiden hood when white men’s eyes first rested satisfyingly and selectively upon them, though age may have made a difference later, and Pocahontas died young. Marriages with Indian women, startin... auspici ousl... Jamestown, soon lost all flavo... romance an... l appropriateness. Other racial mixtures could suit Our aesthetics, our social icons and our morals. The second Lady Arnold, wif... Sir Edwin Arnold who wrote Light... Asia, was a Japanese woman, and a doughboy returning from the war with a French bride could romanticise himsel... his communit... enjoy ing peculiar bliss, his intrinsic happiness enhance... the env... other men. The tan... feminine myster... heightene... being foreign... marriage with al most any other woman outside his own nation would ad... a man’s glamor and self-importance among his neighbors. But one who marrie... Indian woman was only a squaw man. This fastidious prejudic... further show... our amazemen... captive girls afterwards given a chanc... escape but preferrin... stay. Ther... one dramatic account somewher... American histor... perhaps onl... American literatur... a white woma... the momen... such a rescue, wherein with great quick ness she ha... make her decision between getting back the things tenderly remembere... her girlhoo... making new abnegations not apparen... the white m