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The half-blood -- half Indian, half white -- is a frequent figure in the popular fiction of nineteenth-century America, for he (or sometimes she) served to symbolize many of the conflicting cultural values with which American society was then wrestling. In literature, as in real life the half-blood was a product of the frontier, embodying the conflict between wilderness and civilization that haunted and stirred the American imagination. What was his identity? Was he indeed ""half Indian, half white, and half devil"" -- or a bright link between the races from which would emerge a new American p

Miscegenation in literature. --- Indians of North America --- Indians in literature. --- American fiction --- Guineas (Mixed bloods, United States) --- Racially mixed people --- Indians of Central America in literature --- Indians of Mexico in literature --- Indians of North America in literature --- Indians of South America in literature --- Indians of the West Indies in literature --- Mixed descent. --- History and criticism. --- Mixed bloods