Indian Lover
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| Title: | Indian Lover |
| Publisher: | Clean Slate Press |
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| Author(s): | Connery and Starbuck |
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| Date(s): | 1991 |
| Series?: | yes |
| Medium: | print fanzine |
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| Fandom: | Young Riders |
| Language: | English |
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Indian Lover [1] is a gen Young Riders digest-sized novel by Connery and Starbuck. It was published in 1991 and is 45 pages long. It has a sequel called Cody's Instincts.
Summaries
From Agent With Style:
- "Aileen O'Rourke thought she could face anything life and prejudice could do to a willful Irish girl. But then she dared to fall in love with a half-breed[2] Pony Express rider, and discovered the price could be her family and her life...and if the leader of the lynch mob has his way, Buck will pay, too, at the end of a rope, or the barrel of a gun."[3]
From an ad in The Monthly in 1991:
- "Aileen O'Rourke thought she could face anything life and prejudice could do to a willful Irish girl. But then she dared to fall in love with a half-breed Pony Express rider, and discovered the price could be her family and her life. Could Buck save her? Could he avenge her before they made him pay too?" [4]
About the Title
It seems, inferring from these summaries, that both the title and the offensive language used within the summary itself are used to depict the kind of racism and bigotry that mixed race people or Native Americans faced at the time of the canon setting. This reality was depicted in canon, and the phrase "Indian Lover" was used in the first season episode, "A Good Day to Die." [5]
It is worth noting that the attitudes towards warnings have changed over time, and that when this zine was produced, stories without any warnings for content were the norm.
References
- ^ The title is an offensive term often used by the dominant white society and leveled at white people who showed even the most basic respect or decency to Native American people. See talk page.
- ^ A term, usually offensive, in common usage at the time this story is set and used to mark out mixed race people of Native American and white parentage within white-dominated society.
- ^ Young Riders Page on the Agent With Style website, the first part of this summary, part of a longer blurb on the site which also briefly describes the canon, is the publisher's, accessed October 25, 2010
- ^ this is the publisher's original ad from 1991
- ^ Episode review on The Doorless Stall accessed October 25, 2010